How To Write Chinese Characters & Chinese Radicals
In this video lesson we'll learn Chinese Characters zhu, jia, bei, jing, xiao, suo, su, she and jian. We'll learn how to write these characters with a better understanding of their construction. And we'll also learn the Chinese Radicals used in these characters.
- Chinese Radicals: 匕 亠 门
- Chinese Characters: 住 家 北 京 所 校 宿 舍 间
CHINESE RADICALS
| HSK | RADICAL | PINYIN | ENGLISH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 匕 ① | bǐ | spoon; knife |
| 1 | 亠 ② | tóu | - |
| 1 | 门 | mén | door |
NOTES:
① 匕 means "spoon" as a Radical and "knife" as an independent character.
② There is no agreement on the meaning of 亠 and characters that have 亠 as their Radical don't have a commonly shared meaning, so we can say the meaning of 亠 is "undecided".
CHINESE CHARACTERS
| HSK | CHARACTER | PINYIN | ENGLISH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 住 | zhù | to live |
| 1 | 家 | jiā | home; family |
| 1 | 北 | běi | north |
| 1 | 京 | jīng | capital |
| 1 | 校 | xiào | school |
| n/a | 所 | suǒ | measure word for institutions |
| 5 | 宿 | sù | to spend the night |
| 5 | 舍 | shè | house |
| 1 | 间 | jiān | measure word for rooms |
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This is the best learning resource and I tried dozens!
Hi, can anyone explain how to use the different character 家and 舍？ I’m slightly confused about it.
Thank you for sharing.
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I, for my part, am glad that there are no traditional characters. I think it’d we be a bit confusing and I prefer to learn the simplified characters well instead of trying both and mixing them together. So if you consider to give support for traditional characters I’d appreciate a button in the menu to choose which types I want to see. I really appreciate that you name the measure words for each noun. I have already learnt all the vocabulary for HSK 1 and 2 and asked a Chinese friend for all the measure words because they are normally… Read more »
Dear Lili and all the others in the community, Maybe one further comment to make it clear what kind of problems I have when I am learning characters. I don’t have this problems usually when I am typing characters with the keyboard because I can very “safely” choose the right one out of a choice. But when I am writing the characters by my hand, then I have no choice to choose from and need to remember every stroke all by myself. Typical mistakes I tend to do when writing characters by hand is something like 名子 (wrong for míngzi,… Read more »
Where can i get all Chinese radicals? How many radicals exists in Chinese?
Thanks for the inquiry. I might make a list of all common Chinese Radicals and include it in our premium content in the future. Please stay tuned.