chinese for dummies (lesson 1)
it's currently 7:31 in the morning and i have no intention of getting up anytime soon so i typed this out
what we will be covering in this lesson is how chinese characters are made and their meanings behind it
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chinese is a pictographic language, meaning that the character is inspired by a real world object or thought一think of chinese as modern day hieroglyphics.
look at "人" (person) for example, the meaning behind it would be a person walking on two legs. another example would be "口" (mouth), symbolizing an open mouth.
some more examples would be...
- "氵" (water), drops of water
- "木" (tree), literally just a tree
- "中" (middle), an axe cutting a log down the middle
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"oh but mister sigmafartballs you beautiful handsome man, how would you draw ideas like feelings if you can't see them?"
well kind stranger it's drawn out with radicals like "心/忄" (heart), imagery (like the past examples), or a combination of the two.
an example of ex.1 would be "快" (happiness). "快" is a compound of radicals "忄" (heart) and "夬" (fast), meaning that when you're happy your heart beats fast.
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i wrote all of this myself so there's probably grammatical errors. i don't know why im teaching another language when i hardly know my native one
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