How To Write Chinese Characters Sui, Duo, Da, Ji
Learn how to write Chinese Characters sui, duo, da, ji - the ones used to ask and say age in Chinese. Understand the character construction and identify their Radicals.
- Chinese Radicals: 山 夕
- Chinese Characters: 岁 几 多 大
CHINESE RADICALS
| HSK | RADICAL |
PINYIN | ENGLISH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 山 | shān | mountain |
| 1 | 夕 | xī | sunset |
CHINESE CHARACTERS
| HSK | CHARACTER |
PINYIN | ENGLISH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 岁 | suì | year; age |
| 1 | 几 | jǐ | what number; which number |
| 1 | 多 | duō | how much |
| 1 | 大 | dà | big; old |
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Hello Lili! I have a doubt here. Why is the radical xī written in different ways depending on being by itself or being radical? Thank you!
I would say 夕 xī is written the same as a character by itself and as a Radical. 人(亻), 言(讠), 心(忄), 水(氵), 火(灬) would be examples where the Radical and the actual character are written differently.
If we must explain the reason behind the differences, many characters used to have different ways of writing to begin with (just like an English word might be spelled differently in different countries), usually the Radical is just one of many ways of writing the character itself, and was picked to be used as Radical of a more complicated character because it’s an easier form of writing or the shape of it is easier to be used as a building block.
Many thanks Lili
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