How to Write Chinese Radicals

Series Summary

China is one of the oldest recorded nations on the face of the earth and one of the most technically advanced as well. As humans we are able to trace back our lineage thousands of years and most end up going through China at some point along the way. The Chinese have one of the oldest forms of writing as well called calligraphy. This is a very difficult and complex series of lines, dots and characters that make up the Chinese alphabet. They also have separate symbols and characters for full words and even numbers.

Although it is not the easiest language to learn to write there are a few pieces of advice that can help you along your way of learning to write in Chinese. Our expert, Bo Feng, will show you both the contemporary way of writing numbers to ten and then an easier, condensed way to do the same thing. He will walk you step by step through each number and explain each line and dot. Since there is a lot of important detail in each these lessons are invaluable to the serious student. So pick up your pen or quill or whatever you want and lets get to calligraphyin!

Video Transcript

"Ok the next radical that we're going to talk about is "gung" and this radical doesn't stand alone as a character so for characters that have this stroke in it or this radical in it that wouldn't belong to any other radical groups. It will be included in this "gung" radical it's imposed like "so" "books". "Fung" "rich" are all under this radical "gung". It's just a vertical stroke."