题目The Chinese language differs from Western languages in that,instead of an alphabet,it uses characters which stand for ideas,objects or deeds.Chinese words are formed by putting together different characters.In many cases,a single character can also make up a word.The histor...
We can then snap characters together in order to make Chinese words. Here's the really cool part about Chinese: Each of these pieces, at every level, has meaning. The component, the character, the word… they all have meaning. This is different to a European language, where the “pieces...
The first two characters, 遐迩 / 遐邇 xià-ěr, are literary forms only likely to be used by someone with a comfortable mastery of the written language. If Chinese were written in an alphabet, would this kind of expression survive? Theoretically, every character that has ever been recorded ...
Chinese is a tonal language that means a single character can pronounce in many ways, and each pronunciation tone has its meaning. Thousands and thousands of Chinese characters are there that even sound similar. That’s why its tricky to answer the question of how many Chinese characters are ...
There are two common ways to express mother in Chinese character. First, we will translate into妈(mā)妈(mā)to express mother. 妈is a character designed to my liking. There's the radical on the left, 女(nǚ) (female), indicating its generic meaning. And there's the phonetic 马(mǎ...
Chinese language is difficult to learn it, because inside there are a lot of Chinese characters, a lot of meaning and sometimes the pronunciation of each character are not the same. In fact, if there is a good environment for learning Chinese more than a way to help us resolve the difficu...
In this Voices Inside Schools essay, a veteran teacher shares her reflections on a classroom unit entitled "How Language Reveals Character." The goal of the unit is to help adolescents read and write critically through an exploration of literary characters' language. Beginning by drawing on adolesc...
[B]Our standards of judgment have also changed. Today the individual is rated more by observable externalities than by his ancestry, his character or his genuine accomplishments. The clothes a man wears, the language he speaks, the manners he shows have more weight in ascribing a status than ...
will say the specific dialects, or at least like 冀鲁、江淮、西南官话 etc., since 官话 just involves too many dialects. However, some people might not know what 官话 is. It's often used in stuff related to phonology though, e.g. phonetic changes. At least I see it pretty much every...
Chinese characters, or hanzi, are the written symbols used in the Chinese language. Each character represents a word or a morpheme, and they are composed of strokes. The character '日' (rì) means 'sun' and is one of the most basic and commonly used characters in Chinese. It consists of...