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 |
Hi, you gave an explanation why kou is as a radical in the word jiao. What is the reason for nu (female) to be in hao or xing? Is there any explainable reason?
I’m sorry but why is the idea of radicals not defined in this lesson? You don’t give any explanation of what they are, you just start talking about them as if we should already know what a radical is. Not trying to be rude but I am not happy that such an important detail was overlooked in this lesson. I hope the rest of the course is more comprehensive than this.
Sorry for the confusion, the concept of Radicals was explained in one of our previous courses called Hands-on Writing, which is listed as a course to study before this course in our Learning Road Map.
Radicals are the components inside the character that act as a base for their meaning. Like 囗 is a radical that means ‘border’ or ‘enclosure’ and 国 means ‘country’ because it is related to 囗. This means the radical for 国 is 囗 as you can also see inside the character.
the lessons are very light and easy to learn, memorize even practicing. Grateful
你好
我姓杰克逊
我叫Runaldo
今天我学会了:口,女,叫,我,姓 和好. 我高兴
你 好。
我 姓 余 宝。
你 好。
我 叫 余 宝
你 好。
我 姓 余 宝。
你 好。
我 叫 余 宝。
我 叫 mandarin 怕打完
我 姓 padawan
你叫什么名字，我的名字是帕克肯尼斯。 姓，帕克
hi
口 kǒu
女 nu
我 wǒ
叫 jiào
姓 xìng
好 hǎo
o
Hello, can I practice writing Chinese on this website
我
叫
姓
好
你 好. 我 較 David. What up, fellow learners? I’ve been studying Chinese for about nine months. When I signed up for this program, I decided to start at the very beginning to plug any holes in my basic knowledge (and there definitely are some). I like the clarity and structure of the explanations.
xie xie, for the lesson .
你好。
我姓卡。
我叫美丽。
WOW…
我
叫
姓
好
Thanks Chinese teacher this helps me a lot
I live in Minnesota so I don’t know how to use the Chinese characters
I went to china when I was 3, and I can speak Chinese, but I don’t know how to read and write Chinese.
Hi.
我 姓 Ababa
我 叫 Joseph
Saw your youtube videos and these are the best lesssons EVER you really do a good job teaching! Planning to go to china for a year after this pandemic ends.
你 好
我 叫 Mi-Sun
我 姓 Lee
ni hao wo jiao jhinuk
I think that I’ve never receive such Chinese knowledge from any other teacher . you’re the best teacher Lili . thank you so much !!!
Ok, so I want to know more about 纳兰性德’s 长相思·山一程 and more 明代词牌名.
thank you for the lesson
我叫 我姓
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
“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!
It is explained in Lesson 11 – Components of Chinese Characters of our course Chinese Characters: Hands-on Writing
Thanks a lot. It’s very helpful indeed. (^^)
你 好
我 叫 Pamela
我 姓 Kan
wo jiao oumaima
Wo jiao david
我叫叶言。
我 叫 Pepe.
我 姓 Acosta.
我 叫 bosco
我 姓 Jean
I think it is really helpful
你好。我叫Adam。
I can write 我，but I don’t know how write special letter pinyin (ǒ,ǎ,ǚ) from keyboard. 🙁
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 🙂
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.
你好。
我姓瓦尔特子 (Walters)。
我叫布莱恩 (Bryan)。
Thank you for making this amazing course it helps me a lot especially with my study in college . xie xie li li
Excellent course.I like it a lot.
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.
谢谢你 Donald, we’re so glad you like our Chinese course, we wish you the best of luck learning Chinese!
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…
Professionally done, and very clear. One question – are there any practice sheet available to practice writing the characters 我，叫，姓，你，好？
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!
Just an update, we have included writing sheets for all character lessons now!
Thank u very much teacher. I am here bcz of chinese dramas.I’m gonna live in china♡
ni hao, one day I am also, going to live in china<3
see you there
xie xie
I went to china like about 6 to 7 times already. My parents were even born in china
Really! Well me too. Ever since I have watched Chinese Dramas, I have liked almost everything about China. The cute cultural dances, Language, and martial arts.
I also fell in love with Chinese culture through the dramas. I hope to one day visit there.
Ok, and my parents speaks Chinese and I learning.
Great
…but what do xing and hao have to do with being female? Would it change if a male is speaking?
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.
This course is very helpful。I was studying by myself before.
Thank you so much for this nice comment! Wish you the best of luck learning Chinese!
congratulation very accurate lessons!!!
Thank you so much!! Wish you the best of luck learning Chinese!
i was shocked. i didn’t know that i learned that much from your video. because of that i was very thankful… xiexie lili
Thank you for leaving such a positive comment! I hope you’ll enjoy all the other lessons in this course as well!