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Hanja one

Dave 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 →

Tags: Hanja, Dongdaemun, Radical, , , ,

Learn Chinese Everyday

Marcus wrote 4 days ago: Recently I stumbled across a website called simply, Learn Chinese Everyday. A completely free websit … more →

Tags: China General, Chinese language, Learn Chinese, Min Min

man in a box4 comments

Dave wrote 4 days ago: Introduction Has it really been nearly two weeks since my last post? Regular updates are pretty daun … more →

Tags: Events, Coat, cold, 구리, 빼빼로, Guri, hanguko, hangul, Hanja

Welcome!

Administrator wrote 5 days ago: Welcome to Understand Chinese Characters! As a beginner perhaps just starting out in the study of a … more →

Tags: writing, Blog, Chinese, Mandarin

Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

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 →

Tags: Communication, Cutting Edge, Tech, arabic characters, Domain Names, Eric Schmidt, Google, Microsoft, Search Engines

Chinese characters: four wong brothers and grandfather

fourwongbrothers wrote 1 month ago: … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

"Fun The City"

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 →

Tags: Cultural Experience, Daily Activities, Friends, majiang (mahjongg), men's league, Shi Da, tiaoqi (Chinese checkers), xiangqi (Chinese chess)

First Year Cantonese Reader

abmah wrote 1 month ago: A lesson plan from an Early 20th century Cantonese Reader. … more →

Tags: China Vision (vols 2.1 + 2.2), language, ESOL

Chinese characters as penile substitues

sendaianonymous wrote 2 months ago: Recently, I’ve been reading this book (oh, it’s famous! There’s even an English tr … more →

Tags: languages, Japanese, Sociolinguistics, Writing system, Linguistics, natsuhiko kyougoku

how to write numbers in Chinese2 comments

yagosingapore wrote 2 months ago: While the use of the familiar ‘Arabic’ numbers in Chinese is very common, there is also … more →

Tags: HOW TO?, character, Chinese, chinese character input, Chinese input, chinese script, Fundamentals, hanyu pinyin, Learning Chinese

Just A Little Crazy37 comments

tysdaddy wrote 2 months ago: What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the … more →

Tags: Guest Posts, memoir, can anyone translate Chinese?, Crazy, Just a little crazy, Seal, Tattoos

She sells sea shells by the Seashore...2 comments

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 →

Tags: Life, seashore, artwork, Graphic Design, text, Mandarin, iMacs, headers, headaches

Names

elliotaughenbaugh wrote 2 months ago: Some Japanese people are stupid. That is, they give their kids stupid names. If you didn’t kno … more →

Tags: musings, Japan, names, Kanji, Silly, Stupid, pronunciation, Japanese

Should you learn writing Mandarin?1 comment

yagosingapore wrote 2 months ago: It has been reported that the Chinese themselves are forgetting how to write with a pen. The reason … more →

Tags: Learning, character, China, Chinese, chinese character input, Chinese input, chinese script, computer input, hanyu pinyin

大熊猫 Giant Panda

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 →

Tags: Class

Top 10 Chinese Lucky Symbols...Good Luck!!

intlstudentplacement wrote 3 months ago: If you’re learning Chinese, here’s an interesting website: http://csymbol.com/calligraph … more →

Tags: Chinese Language Study (Mandarin), China, Chinese, Chinese Zodiac

45/365

Amanda wrote 3 months ago: Hong Kong has some great neon. Seriously amazing feats of lighting. And while this is not necessaril … more →

Tags: Canon400DSLR, Project 365, neon lights

The strange case of Zhong Guo in Conway's Game of Life

spinoza1111 wrote 3 months ago: When at Princeton, I met, in addition to John Nash, the UK mathematician John Horton Conway, who … more →

Tags: John Horton Conway, game of life, Chinese calligraphy

Western Characters and Chinese Characters

Prellst wrote 4 months ago: A great way to understand, how characters work is the example of the pictographs. Pictographs do not … more →

Tags: Chinese language, Culture Itself, China, Intercultural, chinese art, Linguistics, Yang Liu, Pictograms, Pictographs


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