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Beginner Lesson 1.2 – Chinese Characters: 我叫姓好

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Level Basic: Beginner Chinese Course Beginner Lesson 1.2 – Chinese Characters: 我叫姓好

How To Write Chinese Characters Wo, Jiao, Xing, Hao

In this video lesson, we'll learn how to write Chinese characters wo, jiao, xing, hao. And we'll introduce some useful ways to help understand the characters' construction, and find their Radicals.

Chinese Radicals: 口女
Chinese Characters: 我叫姓好

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CHINESE RADICALS

HSK	RADICAL	PINYIN	ENGLISH
1	口	kǒu	mouth
1	女	nǚ	female

CHINESE CHARACTERS

HSK	CHARACTER	PINYIN	ENGLISH
1	我	wǒ	I; me
1	叫	jiào	to call; to be called
2	姓	xìng	last name; last name to be
1	好	hǎo	good; well; okay

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Lesson Discussions

Premium Student

Socrates

“我 is a simple character also called 独体字 in Chinese.” What does 独体字 mean and what is it’s significance? Thanks in advance for responding!

Teacher

Lili Hao

It is explained in Lesson 11 – Components of Chinese Characters of our course Chinese Characters: Hands-on Writing

Premium Student

eugend

Professionally done, and very clear. One question – are there any practice sheet available to practice writing the characters 我，叫，姓，你，好？

Teacher

Lili Hao

It’s really a great idea to include the Chinese character writing sheets and we’re already thinking about adding them. We’ll send notifications once they’re ready!

Teacher

Lili Hao

Just an update, we have included writing sheets for all character lessons now!

Graduated Student

connoryarish

…but what do xing and hao have to do with being female? Would it change if a male is speaking?

Teacher

Lili Hao

Thanks for the question! The characters do not change. Both 姓 and 好 had something to do with “女 female” when they were created thousands of years ago but now their most common meaning aren’t related to “female”.
Also the gender of the speaker does not change how the character is written.

Premium Student

Michael Macalister

Hallo Lili . Ich freue mich sehr deinen Kurs gefunden zu habe. Leider kann ich noch nicht an den Sprach und Schreibübungen teilnehmen da ich das System noch nicht verstanden habe. viele Grüße aus Deutschland. Michael

Guest

Seigi Shiba

Thanks a lot. It’s very helpful indeed. (^^)

Premium Student

PKan

你好
我叫 Pamela
我姓 Kan

Student

oumaimael

wo jiao oumaima

Premium Student

David Rodriguez

Wo jiao david

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yehyaali151989

我叫叶言。

Student

pepegoac40

我叫 Pepe.

我姓 Acosta.

Student

BOSCO500

我叫 bosco

我姓 Jean

Graduated Student

chinesevval

I think it is really helpful

Graduated Student

Adam Sobotka

你好。我叫Adam。

Graduated Student

Adam Sobotka

I can write 我，but I don’t know how write special letter pinyin (ǒ,ǎ,ǚ) from keyboard. 🙁

Premium Student

haile

你好。You can type the normal character o, a or u. It will show all Chinese words on your keyboard (click to the arrow on the right side to have full board) and you just need to choose the one that you want to use. I hope this help 🙂

Graduated Student

ccesar

This was my first “hands on” lesson! Thanks a lot for this wonderful course. The only point of attention was installing Baidu Input on blind flight, as the page is only in mandarin, as far as I could see.

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walters.bryan2005

你好。
我姓瓦尔特子 (Walters)。
我叫布莱恩 (Bryan)。

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[email protected]

Thank you for making this amazing course it helps me a lot especially with my study in college . xie xie li li

Student

Phyomin Thu

Excellent course.I like it a lot.

Graduated Student

Donald

Xie Xie LiLi. Thank you for creating this course to help us learn Mandarin. I appreciate how your lessons are organized and easy to follow.

Teacher

Lili Hao

谢谢你 Donald, we’re so glad you like our Chinese course, we wish you the best of luck learning Chinese!

Student

tanyabuskas

How can I get practice sheet for my practice writing Chinese characters? Without practice writing it is very difficult and takes so much time and effort to make characters look like original…