Tuesday, May 26, 2015

What is in a Chinese Character?





  
Well, this book is an eye Opener...

Chines character evolved in one of the 4 ways :

(1) Pictographs : water, mountain, tree

(2) Ideographs : one, two , three, up , down

(3) Deterministic- phonetics : meaning-sounds eg mother sounds like horse ( ma- ma)

(4) Compound : 2 trees make a forest ( mu mu= lin )

Well if I learn 1 word a day, then after 3 years , i should have a thousand words in my vocab. Enough to read and understand a Chinese Daily !

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