How to Write Body Parts in Chinese Symbols

Series Summary

In Chinese writing, a character, or symbol is used to represent each individual syllable. There are over 47,00 Chinese characters in total, however many of these are rarely used, and the average person would need to know only about four thousand characters to be literate. Most modern Chinese words contain more than one syllable and therefore require multiple characters to write out. However, a person knowing the meanings of individual characters can often infer the general meaning of a word.

In this free video series, our expert will teach you how to write and pronounce the Chinese sybols for body parts. You will learn how characters are formed and derived and get tips on pronunciation. Learn words like head, face, eye, nose and mouth. If you are interested in learning about Chinese characters let our expert show you these basic body part Chinese symbols.

Video Transcript

"In this series I have fifteen Chinese words for our different body parts. But before that, let's know what is the Chinese word for 'body' -that's 'shen ti'. 'Shen ti', actually the first character 'shen', it means 'body'. And 'ti' it is somewhat like also the meaning of body. And when put together, it means our human body. Let me do this again. The first stroke is a very short left to following; and then this is the vertical; here this is horizontal turning hook, and make this very long, long enough; and two horizontal inside and then this is rising and long left to following. 'Ti' is easier to write."