STROKE ORDER / 笔顺 【Bǐ shùn】

Bǐ shùn is usually written as Bishun. Bishun means steps of writing a chinese character. The difference of bihua and bishun, Bihua is stroke. Stroke is a basic movement of writing a chinese character. Bǐhuà / strokes are the classified set of line patterns that may be arranged and combined to form Chinese characters (Hanzi)Bishun …

Hanzi in Picture （画中有汉字）

Besides learning hanzi/chinese character, We can appreciate the beauty in it. Here are some pictures that contains hanzi (can be in word and or sentence) ... 熊猫 【Xióng māo】= panda 蝴蝶【Hú dié】= butterfly 鸳鸯 [Yuān yāng] = mandarin duck 猫头鹰 [Māo tóu yīng] = owl 美丽的家乡 【Měi lì de jiā xiāng】= beautiful hometown 唐僧 [Táng …

象形字 / Xiàng xíng zì

Xiàng xíng zì is Pictographic chinese character. Pictographic means look like a picture or symbol. For the very first time, The chinese character was invented by Cāng jié （仓颉）by observing the things in his surroundings. Inventor of Xiàng xíng zì 仓颉，称苍颉，复姓侯刚，号史皇氏，轩辕黄帝史官，被后人尊为“造字圣人”。他所处的年代约为公元前26世纪，距今已有四、五千年。关于仓颉造字的历史故事，因为缺乏早期的文献记载，现在已被当作神话。仓颉造字的传说和遗迹遍布黄河中下游许多地方。 Pinyin : Cāngjié, chēng cāngjié, fùxìng hóu gāng, hào shǐ huáng shì, xuānyuán huángdì …

Radical / 偏旁部首 【Piānpáng bù shǒu】

Mandarinwow wants to share the key to master the hanzi. From listening, speaking, reading and writing in mandarin, the fourth is the hardest. At least we have to know 3000 chinese character to read the newspaper article in Mandarin. How about writing? Writing the hanzi, learners have to know the stroke order / bishun and …