The character “衣” in ancient times looked like the frock that time, referring only to the clothes for the upper
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Straight
oneself
The character “自” looked like a human’s nose in Chinese oracle bone script.
Water
Angle 6: Chinese Character Radicals and Dictionaries
With some basic understanding of Chinese characters under your belt, let’s now get a little more technical by talking about radicals. But please, no Abbey Hoffman jokes.
Angle 5: Traditional vs. Simplified Chinese Characters
In the 1950s, the government of Mainland China "simplified" the written forms of many "traditional" characters in order to make learning to read and write the language easier for its then largely illiterate population.
Angle 5: Construction Principles of Chinese Characters, continued
Two characters join to create a new one. One character influences the sound of the word; the other influences its meaning.
Angle 4: Construction Principles of Chinese Characters
In Angle 2, we learned the principles governing the stroke order for Chinese characters. Another way of defining characters involves "principles of construction." In this scheme, there are six types of characters, with each type finding its meaning based on one of the following principles.
Angle 3: Number of Strokes in Chinese Characters
Knowing the number of strokes used to make each character is important, especially when it comes to looking them up in a dictionary, as you’ll read about in Angle 6.
Angle 2: Stroke Order for Chinese Characters
When you were learning to write your name, you were probably taught to write the letters in a certain order and direction. That’s because it is more efficient to write western languages from left to right. For similar reasons, the strokes for each Chinese character are to be drawn in a certain defined order.
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