The Chinese characters “子” meaning is infant, child and son…
This character for child originated from a representation of an infant with outstretched arms and legs. Eventually it was modified to one with legs swaddled in cloth bands. Evidently, to the Chinese parent, the secret of infant care lies in keeping one end wet and the [...]

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The Chinese characters “女” meaning is woman, girl and daughter…
The original pictograph for woman depicted her in a bowing position. Apparently, for ease in writing, man reduced this to a humbler form — a woman kneeling down, but not for long. The modern version graphically portrays the big stride woman has taken to keep up [...]

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Many people who mother tongue isn’t Chinese think it is very difficult to learn Chinese, but I do not think so. I think everybody can learn Chinese easy. Maybe you don’t find effective methods of learning Chinese.
In fact Chinese characters are most difficult to learn compared with pronouncing of Chinese language. As a means of [...]

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There is only one more thing to consider before we can write freely: stroke order. The following is the basic rules of the stroke-order of Chinese characters. If you know these basic rules, you will soon learn to write Chinese intuitively and not have to think about them as you write.
Rule 1. Heng precedes Shu; [...]

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The standard Chinese characters are made up of individual strokes arranged in a certain way. The form of each stroke is very important for the form of the whole Chinese character. It is therefore necessary to learn proper basic strokes to write acceptable Chinese characters. Once you have spent some time practicing the basic strokes [...]

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You need to know some practice methods and skills before learning Chinese characters writing. The first thing to do with any new Chinese characters is to carefully memorize the stroke order. Simple rules govern the order in which the strokes that make up a Chinese character must be written. It is very important to write [...]

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If you want to learn to write Chinese, you need to prepare a fountain pen, ink and paper at first. Let’s begin by discussing how to practice and then talk about how to form Chinese characters that are pleasing to the eye.
Use a fountain pen with a round tip. The special pens for calligraphy that [...]

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Even though Chinese characters are one of the most fascinating aspects of the Chinese language, most of people who learn Chinese characters aren’t very good at writing them. Translators and scholars who know the language well sometimes have embarrassingly sloppy handwriting. It is a pity that the art of writing has been so little stressed [...]

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Pinyin, “Chinese spelling system”, it is necessary to note, however, that the Pinyin “Chinese spelling system” is currently not used in place of Chinese writing in China. Instead, it is a romanized system functioning to annotate standard Chinese pronunciation with Roman letters. Since 1958, the Pinyin system has become very useful for foreigners to learn [...]

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Chinese characters are the longest history characters that are still used now. The earliest Chinese characters that we can see now are the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells more than 3000 years ago. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics is one of the earliest characters of mankind, but it died out. Sumerian arrowhead characters have a history [...]

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