The word “Gain” also has the meaning of “Sharp” since it is made up of the root of “rice stalks” and the radical of knife on the right. The pictogram depicts using… more →
Living LiteDave wrote 4 days ago: In this post I am trying to do two things: increase my post count yes, but foremost I would like to … more →
Marcus wrote 4 days ago: Recently I stumbled across a website called simply, Learn Chinese Everyday. A completely free websit … more →
Dave wrote 4 days ago: Introduction Has it really been nearly two weeks since my last post? Regular updates are pretty daun … more →
Administrator wrote 5 days ago: Welcome to Understand Chinese Characters! As a beginner perhaps just starting out in the study of a … more →
the_deliman wrote 1 month ago: I’m gonna try to buy all the Chinese character and Arabic character domain names I can, and ju … more →
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Edward Cartee wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been in Taiwan for 2 months now. This 2nd month I feel like my Chinese has really improv … more →
abmah wrote 1 month ago: A lesson plan from an Early 20th century Cantonese Reader. … more →
sendaianonymous wrote 2 months ago: Recently, I’ve been reading this book (oh, it’s famous! There’s even an English tr … more →
yagosingapore wrote 2 months ago: While the use of the familiar ‘Arabic’ numbers in Chinese is very common, there is also … more →
tysdaddy wrote 2 months ago: What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the … more →
swanktown wrote 2 months ago: Hey! Today was my computer improvement day. I figured out how to add Youtube videos to my iPhone, an … more →
elliotaughenbaugh wrote 2 months ago: Some Japanese people are stupid. That is, they give their kids stupid names. If you didn’t kno … more →
yagosingapore wrote 2 months ago: It has been reported that the Chinese themselves are forgetting how to write with a pen. The reason … more →
Haley wrote 2 months ago: I am doing my online activity for Chinese that I never realised was due last Friday I have been so f … more →
intlstudentplacement wrote 3 months ago: If you’re learning Chinese, here’s an interesting website: http://csymbol.com/calligraph … more →
Amanda wrote 3 months ago: Hong Kong has some great neon. Seriously amazing feats of lighting. And while this is not necessaril … more →
spinoza1111 wrote 3 months ago: When at Princeton, I met, in addition to John Nash, the UK mathematician John Horton Conway, who … more →
Prellst wrote 4 months ago: A great way to understand, how characters work is the example of the pictographs. Pictographs do not … more →