Category Archives: Chinese vocabulary

Tips for learning Chinese character – formation & usage of characters – liu shu 六书 – xiang xing / pictograph /pictogram, zhi shi / indicatives / ideogram, hui yi / combined ideogram, xing sheng / phonetic-semantic compounds, zhuang zhu / mutual explanatories / transfer, jia jie /phonetic loans & deja vu lyrics

Posted on 01/29/2012 by Chinesetolearn

Many Chinese language learners feel each Chinese character is a complicated picture or puzzle. Even if they spend considerable time to recognize and practice writing the characters – after a few days – their memory of those characters is gone … Continue reading →

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Chinese family tree titles — Chinese kinship terms — detailed table — Chinese family relationship title diagram －－ cheng1 wei4 称谓/ titles, appellation, form of address

Posted on 11/20/2011 by Chinesetolearn

Have you ever wondered “What is the difference between 外公 wai4 gong1 （grandpa, from maternal side) and 爷爷 ye2 ye5 （grandpa from paternal side), 外婆 wai4 po2 （grandma from maternal side) and 奶奶 nai3 nai5 (grandma from paternal side), 舅舅 … Continue reading →

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