Dear Chinese learners,
●●●●●Chinese characters may be a bottleneck for western Chinese learners who have not known the primary laws of chinese characters about their figure, sound and meaning, especially the systematicness of and between them. As long as we have mastered the principles the Hanzi learning will switch from pains to leisure and pleasure. As a matter of fact we do not even have to toil at remembering. When I was at college I had once taught hanzi to a new-coming Ukrainian student who took a short-term Chinese training coure in my university. She spoke chinese pretty well but wrote almost no hanzi. Within two weeks she learnt nearly 500 chinese characters and when left for homeland 4 months later she had gained the mastery of all the 7 000 common chinese characters; but then my method is not a secret, many people specializing in my subject( Chinese language and character) know of it, but the point is whether a teacher has really understood it and is competent to carry it out. Of course, the best and effective way to teach is one-on-one and face-to-face. Anyway I will write an article for you and for this website on how to recognize and write hanzi as soon as possible. Here i will give the kernel of it.
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Chinese Characters (CC, same below) are idiographic and pictographic., that means every cc is a picture or image of a scene or idea; if we disclose what the scene or image is the figure will be interesting and uneasy to be forgot. for example, the cc cang4 (藏, originally 臧, hide, conceal) is difficult for its poly-stroked. but if i tell you that this cc is describing a screne as follows you will feel it is so natural, reasonable, interesting and easy: an armed man is hunting for another, and the fleer is lying supine under a bed. with this discription this cc tell us the meaning hide/conceal.
Why not the meaning 'hunt'? This may be your question ;-).i can only reply as this: there are other cc to convey the meaning 'hunt' because cc is an organic system. this cc (original one)consists of 3 components: a chinese halberd/spear, a bed and a supine man under the bed with wide-opened eye(s). and the 3 components have their respective machenisms to carry the relative meanings. In fact, a great part of cc display their meanings in a pretty explicit way. Why does the current cang2 has its 4th constituent? this is also explainable. The other cc that do not show their meanings evidently are called pictophonograms that each contain two parsts in which one indicates the meaning and the other the sound.
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■ HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF CHINESE CHARACTERS ■
As regards
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■ THE SOUND OF CHINESE CHARACTERS ■
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--The later 2 issues will be discussed later on)
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