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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Maxwell Murphy Premium Student June 25, 2024 at 11:11 am

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.

ChineseFor.Us Academic Team July 5, 2024 at 11:04 am

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.

Janecee10 Student January 20, 2024 at 7:39 am

the lessons are very light and easy to learn, memorize even practicing. Grateful

Runaldo Jackson Premium Student January 1, 2024 at 12:11 pm

你好
我姓杰克逊
我叫Runaldo

ai123 Premium Student July 7, 2023 at 9:10 am

今天我学会了:口,女,叫,我,姓和好. 我高兴

charly.g.park.10@gmail.com Student June 26, 2023 at 1:38 pm

你好。
我姓余宝。

你好。
我叫余宝

por Premium Student May 10, 2023 at 12:04 am

你好。
我姓余宝。

你好。
我叫余宝。

mandarinpadawan Premium Student May 29, 2023 at 9:57 pm

我叫 mandarin 怕打完

我姓 padawan

Kenneth C. Parker Premium Student March 30, 2023 at 3:23 am

你叫什么名字，我的名字是帕克肯尼斯。姓，帕克

Mari16 Premium Student August 29, 2022 at 2:58 am

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Hemen Student November 24, 2023 at 10:57 am

Masangwi1 Student August 24, 2022 at 12:30 am

口 kǒu
女 nu
我 wǒ
叫 jiào
姓 xìng
好 hǎo

Alicia- Han An Yu Premium Student June 16, 2022 at 6:21 am

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Isa (伊莎） Guest May 25, 2022 at 5:45 pm

Princess Nancy Student April 18, 2022 at 4:14 pm

Hello, can I practice writing Chinese on this website

josealcon@gmail.com Student December 15, 2021 at 3:28 pm

我
叫
姓
好

John Tynes Premium Student September 21, 2021 at 10:25 pm

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.

ʟɪʟ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ Student April 5, 2021 at 9:08 am

xie xie, for the lesson .

mabellaa Premium Student March 10, 2021 at 11:08 pm

你好。
我姓卡。
我叫美丽。
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Princess Nancy Student April 19, 2022 at 6:28 pm

WOW…

Zakk Nicholson Ho Student February 5, 2021 at 12:40 am

我
叫
姓
好

Priscilla Guest January 24, 2021 at 1:55 am

Thanks Chinese teacher this helps me a lot

tyrese Guest January 16, 2021 at 10:12 pm

I live in Minnesota so I don’t know how to use the Chinese characters

Princess Nancy Student April 19, 2022 at 6:32 pm

I went to china when I was 3, and I can speak Chinese, but I don’t know how to read and write Chinese.

Ababa Student December 1, 2020 at 8:00 am

Hi.
我姓 Ababa
我叫 Joseph

GARRETT Guest October 2, 2020 at 11:06 pm

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.

Mi Sun Student September 21, 2020 at 12:23 pm

你好
我叫 Mi-Sun
我姓 Lee

tahamina Student September 21, 2020 at 10:12 am

ni hao wo jiao jhinuk

Prapti Guest August 17, 2020 at 12:01 pm

I think that I’ve never receive such Chinese knowledge from any other teacher . you’re the best teacher Lili . thank you so much !!!

韩佳燊 Guest August 15, 2020 at 2:12 am

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.

Nwlohere XD Premium Student July 6, 2020 at 10:35 am

thank you for the lesson

Mariam Nasiri Student June 30, 2020 at 12:00 pm

我叫我姓

Michael Macalister Premium Student May 18, 2020 at 5:06 am

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

Socrates Premium Student April 7, 2020 at 11:09 am

“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!

Lili Hao Teacher April 7, 2020 at 6:09 pm

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

Seigi Shiba Guest March 25, 2020 at 12:03 am

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

PKan Premium Student January 21, 2020 at 2:46 am

你好
我叫 Pamela
我姓 Kan

oumaimael Student January 16, 2020 at 7:44 pm

wo jiao oumaima

David Rodriguez Premium Student January 8, 2020 at 10:36 am

Wo jiao david

yehyaali151989 Student January 1, 2020 at 6:30 am

我叫叶言。

pepegoac40 Student November 22, 2019 at 10:46 am

我叫 Pepe.

我姓 Acosta.

BOSCO500 Student November 8, 2019 at 6:53 am

我叫 bosco

我姓 Jean

chinesevval Premium Student July 31, 2019 at 6:51 pm

I think it is really helpful

Adam Sobotka Premium Student March 26, 2019 at 3:16 pm

你好。我叫Adam。

Adam Sobotka Premium Student March 26, 2019 at 3:09 pm

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

haile Premium Student April 1, 2020 at 10:14 am

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 🙂

ccesar Premium Student February 12, 2019 at 3:57 pm

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.

walters.bryan2005 Premium Student November 17, 2018 at 11:02 pm

你好。
我姓瓦尔特子 (Walters)。
我叫布莱恩 (Bryan)。

alaasun2014@gmail.com Student September 23, 2018 at 12:32 pm

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

Phyomin Thu Student March 5, 2018 at 7:18 am

Excellent course.I like it a lot.

Donald Premium Student February 21, 2018 at 8:51 am

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.

Lili Hao Teacher February 23, 2018 at 8:32 pm

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

tanyabuskas Student February 16, 2018 at 11:40 pm

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…

eugend Premium Student February 12, 2018 at 3:54 am

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

Lili Hao Teacher February 12, 2018 at 9:48 pm

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!

Lili Hao Teacher January 13, 2020 at 12:54 am

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

Kithmini Iranga Student July 21, 2020 at 7:08 am

Thank u very much teacher. I am here bcz of chinese dramas.I’m gonna live in china♡

waji_lutu Student June 7, 2021 at 5:39 am

ni hao, one day I am also, going to live in china<3
see you there
xie xie

Princess Nancy Student April 19, 2022 at 6:27 pm

I went to china like about 6 to 7 times already. My parents were even born in china

Tisha Et yuan Student November 11, 2021 at 7:01 pm

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.

Vin Student December 30, 2021 at 1:11 am

I also fell in love with Chinese culture through the dramas. I hope to one day visit there.

Princess Nancy Student April 18, 2022 at 4:15 pm

Ok, and my parents speaks Chinese and I learning.

Princess Nancy Student April 19, 2022 at 6:07 pm

Great

connoryarish Premium Student December 6, 2017 at 10:09 am

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

Lili Hao Teacher December 6, 2017 at 1:52 pm

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.

Sonette T. Premium Student November 25, 2017 at 2:12 pm

This course is very helpful。I was studying by myself before.

Lili Hao Teacher November 25, 2017 at 4:25 pm

Thank you so much for this nice comment! Wish you the best of luck learning Chinese!

niknatali8 Premium Student October 3, 2017 at 6:52 am

congratulation very accurate lessons!!!

Lili Hao Teacher October 3, 2017 at 3:09 pm

Thank you so much!! Wish you the best of luck learning Chinese!

monique alonzo Student May 11, 2017 at 4:18 am

i was shocked. i didn’t know that i learned that much from your video. because of that i was very thankful… xiexie lili

Lili Hao Teacher May 12, 2017 at 2:31 am

Thank you for leaving such a positive comment! I hope you’ll enjoy all the other lessons in this course as well!

Level Basic: Beginner Chinese Course

Beginner Lesson 1.2 – Chinese Characters: 我 叫 姓 好

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

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