Dot Examples in Chinese Calligraphy

Video Transcript

"So, here we are going to talk about dot, dian, okay. In Pinyin the pronunciation is like this, dian, dian, and in Chinese it writes dian. And in traditional Chinese it's a little bit more complicated. Dian. So let's see some examples of how dian or dot is used in forming a Chinese character, so this stroke is a dian, or a dot, and this is another dot, okay. This is not. And here inside there's another dot, another dot, and this is not dot but short left slant. And then we see here another dot, another dot. And that means to examine, to review, that ta, and so we see this is dot, this is dot, this is Han, and so Chinese character is called tsong wo tzu, or tsong wen tzu. It's also called Han tzu, so that's the Han nationality is the major nationality in China. And another word that you start is six, lio, that's a dot, horizontal, dot, and dot."