Learning Chinese
Mysterious Chinese Characters (12): Ze
Sep 14, 2008, 11:00 amThe Chinese character for duty or responsibility reflects the deep religious sentiments of ancient China.
Mysterious Chinese Characters (11): Yi
Sep 2, 2008, 9:00 amThe Chinese character for medicine, Yi, shows how the language has evolved with changing cultural practices over history.
Mysterious Chinese Character (10): Party
Aug 27, 2008, 10:00 am黨 (dăng) is a character that contains many negative implications. Originally this emblem came from the word 不鲜 (bùxiăn). The 鲜 (xiăn) consists of the ideograms 鱼 (yú) and 羊 (yáng), where 鱼 is the character for fish and 羊 is the character for sheep.
Mysterious Chinese Characters (9): Huai
Aug 24, 2008, 4:00 amThe Chinese character 壞 (huài) means bad, evil or nasty, and is the opposite of good. It derives its origin from the symbol 敗 (bài) meaning rot or loss, in combination with the symbol 土 (tŭ) meaning soil.
Mysterious Chinese Characters (8): Yi
Aug 22, 2008, 10:00 amAmong the tens of thousands of highly complicated Chinese characters, 一 (yī) is the simplest, and also the first children are taught.
Mysterious Chinese Characters (7): Jia
Aug 18, 2008, 11:00 amThe Chinese ideogram for family, household, or home 家 “Jia” consists of the signs for house, 宀, on top, and pig 豕, below. The reason “a pig in the house” came to signify home, household or family in China is explained by history.
Mysterious Chinese Characters (6): Hao
Aug 14, 2008, 1:00 pmIf something is good, the Chinese describe it as 好 (hăo). For example, in China people greet each other with 你好嗎 (níhăo ma?) “Are you doing well?”
Mysterious Chinese Characters (5): Shan
Aug 1, 2008, 11:00 amThe Chinese pictograph 善 (shàn) is comprised of the ideogram 羊 (yáng) and 言 (yán), where 羊 signifies a sheep, and 言means "that which is spoken," or simply the noun "word."
Mysterious Chinese Characters (4): De
Jul 30, 2008, 10:00 amThe left half of the Chinese character for Virtue, Morality, and Ethics 德 (dé) is formed by the ideogram ㄔ, a character that was derived over thousands of years from the symbol for “leg and foot.”
Mysterious Chinese Characters (3): Zhen
Jul 21, 2008, 6:00 amThe Chinese character 真 (zhēn) (Truthful, Genuine, Pure) consists of the two ideograms 十 (shí) and 目 (mù). 十 is the character for the number ten and symbolizes the ten directional universe in Buddhist thought, while目 represents the eye. 十目therefore corresponds to the heavenly eye, also called the “all-seeing eye.”
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