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Chinese Characters and Radicals – How do I learn and remember Chinese characters?

One way of remembering characters is to make up "stories" which would make "sense" to yourself. For instance, in  休   xiū  to rest, the radical on the left,  亻 means "a person", and the part on the right,  木 , means wood or tree, so the made up "story" could be "a person is leaning against a tree to have a  rest." Let’s look at another example;  队   duì  a queue. The radical on the left,  阝 means plenty and the part on the right,  人   means people, so one could say: "Plenty of people make a  queue." Sometimes the radical doesn’t have enough to allow a story to be made up then one should use one’s imagination. For instance, in  办   bàn  to deal with  the middle part of the character  力   means strength, and the two dots,  、   look like sweat, so one could say: "Nowadays one needs strength and sweat to  deal with  business."

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Chinese Conversation 汉语对话 个人总结ɡèrén zǒnɡjié

year-end self evaluation

个人总结

(ɡèrén zǒnɡjié )A: Why didn’t you answer the phone when I called you last night? 

昨天我给你打电话,你怎么不接电话？

(zuótiān wǒ ɡěi nǐ dǎ diànhuà,nǐ zěnme bù jiē diànhuà?)

B: I was writing my year-end self evaluation yesterday, for a whole day. I didn’t have time to answer. 

我昨天在写个人总结,写了一天,没有时间接电话。

(wǒ zuótiān zài xiě ɡèrén zǒnɡjié,xiě le yītiān,méiyǒu shíjiān jiē diànhuà.)

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Chinese language vocabulary 汉语词汇 OMG! Chinese Buzzwords! (25)

速食婚姻(sù shí hūn yīn)
instant marriage
The term refers to a very quick marriage between two people who only started their relationship a short time ago. This term comes from instant noodles, which are fast to make to satisfy one’s hunger but don’t contain much nutrition.

向日葵族(xiàng rì kuí zú)
sunflower clan
The term is used to refer to people who, just like a sunflower, always look on the bright side of life and are resilient to pressure as they easily forget about unhappiness. They are different to the “strawberry clan,” people who don’t handle pressure or setbacks well even though they look good.

男人月经期(nán rén yuè jīng qī)
manstruation
It is said that men experience psychological menstruation, which can be seen by a periodic bad temper, low mood and lack of interest in romance and sex.

微博保姆(wēi bó bǎo mǔ)
microblog operations administrator  
It is a nickname for someone who maintains a company’s microblog. The person tries to create topics to attract more followers while also explaining negative comments about the firm. The Chinese term literally translates as microblog housemaid.

笃定(dǔ  dìng)

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