Most characters are built of components which represent physical things or abstract concepts. Learn what each of the components represents and try building up mental images featuring the components for each character. Include in your mental images the meanings of the characters and the pronunciation. There are a number of books, such as Fun with [...]
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Introduction to Chinese Characters
Chinese characters are all in square block shape like this one: 口 (meaning ‘mouth’). Simple or complicated, they all take the same area on paper. To write Chinese, you should know 3 things to get ready: 1. Strokes A stroke is a single brush of pen on the paper. All Chinese characters are made of [...]
About Chinese character
A Chinese character, also known as a Han character (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字; pinyin: Hànzì), is a logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi), Japanese (kanji), less frequently Korean (hanja), and formerly Vietnamese (hán tự). The number of Chinese characters contained in the Kangxi dictionary is approximately 47,035, although a large number of these [...]