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Chinese Characters: Heart Radical
Chinese Symbols for Heart
Chinese Symbols for Certainly or Surely
Chinese Symbols for Ambition
Chinese Symbols for Forget
Chinese Symbols for Tolerate or Endure
Chinese Symbols for Form or Attitude
Chinese Symbols for Loyal or Faithful
Chinese Symbols for Read or Think
Chinese Symbols for Suddenly
Chinese Symbols for Yearning
Chinese Symbols for Why or How
Chinese Symbols for Resentment or Enmity
Chinese Symbols for Impatient
Chinese Symbols for Assemble
Chinese Symbols for Anger or Rage
Summary: Learn the Chinese symbols for "why" or "how" with tips on writing and pronouncing Chinese characters from a Chinese language teacher in this free video on Chinese words and phrases.
Esther-Xiaohua Liu is a graduate student and teaching assistant with a major in Chinese Literature and Languages at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught Chinese at...read more
"Chinese writing is very different from most other languages in the world. In the Chinese writing system, Chinese symbols represent each character which corresponds to a single spoken syllable. A majority of words in all modern varieties of Chinese require two or more characters to write. Many Chinese characters were adopted according to their meaning by the Japanese and Korean languages to represent native words, disregarding pronunciation altogether. Chinese characters are also considered to be the world's longest continuously used writing system."
eHow Article: Chinese Symbols for Why or How
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