Tips on Writing With the Chinese Radical of Moon

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 speak there are a few pieces of advice that can help you along your way of learning to speak in Chinese. Our expert, Bo Feng, will show you how to write many different types of Chinese characters with the radical of moon. Bo will walk you step by step through each name and explain each one at a time. Since there is a lot of important detail in each these lessons are invaluable to the serious student!

Video Transcript

"In this clip, all the characters I'm going to talk about have the same radical weytsepaung - the moon. This radical called weytsepaung. Wey means "the moon." Tse means "a character." Paung means "radical." Sp, even this radical is called weytsepaung - the moon - but, originally in Asian Chinese word, this word means "meat." In modern Chinese we write in this way, it means "meat." So, some characters with this radical they are in our body. So for example, "thien." Thien means "face" - our face. This radical is part of out body."