Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world. It is the writing symbol which records Chinese language. The shape of Chinese characters changes from figure to square symbol gradually, so Chinese characters are known as “Block word”. Chinese characters integrate image, sound and meaning. This characteristic is unique in all characters of the world.

Chinese characters are a gem of Chinese nation’s culture of several thousand years. Chinese characters can cause our nice imagination. It can give people beautiful enjoyment.

Chinese characters are made up of one or several word roots in a square through two-dimension way (Indo-European is one-dimension characters).

The biggest characteristic of Chinese characters is that each Chinese character represents a meaning. The information density is very high in the single Chinese characters. It can express more information with shorter length, so the reading efficiency of Chinese characters is very high!

Each regular Chinese character occupies the same space. The minimum unit of Chinese characters is strokes. The order of strokes Chinese characters is regular. Generally speaking, the law of strokes of Chinese characters is: Write horizontal stroke first, and then write vertical stroke; write left-falling stroke first, and then write right-falling stroke; from top to bottom; from left to right; from outside to inside; from middle to both sides.

The quantity of Chinese characters is nearly 100,000. However, there are only thousands of daily Chinese characters used. In fact you only need to learn 2500 - 3000 Chinese characters. It is enough, because 3000 Chinese characters can cover 99% of writing material.

It is a very interesting thing to learn Chinese characters. If you really want to learn Chinese characters, I will teach 3000 frequently-used Chinese characters to everybody one by one in this website in the future!

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