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Chinese character of the week:打针 -to have an injection

My favourite Chinese character of this week: 打针: To have an injection Dǎ zhēn 打 针 An odd Chinese character to have, you may think. But this is my Chinese character of the week for a number of reasons. Firstly, I’ve finally managed to learn it (for some reason, it has never stuck before, despite covering [...]

Chinese Character of the week

饿 è To be hungry My favourite character this week has to be the character for ‘to be hungry’. On first look, for such a simple pinyin spelling (è) the character is somewhat complicated, however, I found a good way to remember it is that when I am hungry, I want to eat. Breaking the character [...]

How to study Chinese – Learning style

It’s been a while since our last post, however, we are trying to update our blog more often and with more posts focused on Chinese language.  Today, is our first post about learning style. Thinking about studying fills some people with dread, others may really enjoy the though of a new challenge. Whatever your perspective [...]

Chinese character etymology-History of every character

I came across this site and was quite impressed by what he did. Richard Sears made Chinese Character etymology available online after years of effort. Through his site, you can see history of any Chinese character.  You can see how each character written in different ancient Chinese character styles: simplified Chinese character (most common used), traditional Chinese character, Seal Character (篆体字-zhuàn [...]

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