Showing posts with label Intermediate Chinese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intermediate Chinese. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

信 xìn

The Chinese character 信 (pronounced xìn) is composed of two
elements - the radical 人 in the altered form of 亻(pronounced
rén meaning person) and the character 言 (yán meaning word; 
to speak).
A person standing by his or her word symbolizes trust, one of
 the meanings of this character. The other meanings are believe
,true, and mail or letter.
The character 信 is classified as an associative compound. While
it is easy to see that a person's word equals trust, this character's
association with mail is less clear. Perhaps we can imagine letters
as a form of communication unique to humankind - people are the
only ones capable of sending words by mail.

Mandarin Vocabulary With Xìn

Simplified CharactersPinyinEnglish

半信半疑bàn xìn bàn yíhalf-believe, half-doubt

报信bào xìnnotify; inform

不信任bù xìn rènmistrust

不信用bù xìn yòngdistrust

电信diàn xìntelecommunications

电子信箱diàn zǐ xìn xiāng    electronic mailbox

短信duǎn xìnSMS message

公开信gōng kāi xìnopen letter

黑信hēi xìnblackmail

互信hù xìnmutual trust

可信任kě xìn rèntrusty

难以置信nán yǐ zhì xìnincredible

使信服shǐ xìn fúto convince

推荐信tuī jiàn xìnrecommendation letter

写信xiě xìnto write a letter

信封xìn fēngenvelope

信服xìn fúto convince

信赖xìn lài                                  confide; trust

信箱xìn xiāngmailbox

信用xìn yòngcredit

自信zì xìnconfidence

Monday, March 1, 2010

List of Chinese Radicals



The Chinese radical (Chinese: 部首) is an essential element of the Chinese dictionary. The list of Chinese radicals is a rough equivalent of a Chinese "alphabet". Every Chinese character is classified under a radical and characters with the same radical are sorted by the number of strokes (Simplified Chinese: 画; Traditional Chinese: 畫) used in writing them. The number of strokes varies between 1 and 17. Characters belonging to a particular radical are in turn listed on the basis of the number of additional strokes. Note that the number of strokes is not always clear to the untrained eye.
There have been several systems of radicals in use at various times during the history of the Chinese language. The following describes the Unicode system of radicals, which is based on the traditional 214 radicals of the Kangxi dictionary. The main difference between the Unicode and the Kangxi radicals is that the Unicode system has been extended to classify both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, as well as characters which are used only in Japanese or Korean.

1  Stroke Chinese Radicals:
一 丨 丶 丿 乙/乚 亅/了
2 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
二 亠 人/亻 儿 入 八 冂 冖 冫 几 凵 刀/刂 力 勹 匕 匚/匸 十 卜 卩 厂 厶 又 讠 阝
3 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
艹 口 囗 土 士 夂 夕 大 女 子/孑 宀 寸 小 尢 尸 屮 山 川/巛 工 己 巾 干 幺 纟 广 廴 廾 弋 弓 彐/彑 彡 彳 忄 扌 氵 犭 辶 门 饣 马
4 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
心 戈 户 手 支 攴 攵 文 斗 禸 斤 方 无 日/曰 月 木 欠 止 歹 殳 毋 比 毛 氏 气 水 火/灬 爪 父 片 牙 牛 犬 王 礻 贝 长 韦 风 飞 见 车
5 Stroke Chinese Radicals:
玄 玉 瓜 瓦 甘 生 用 衤 田 疋 疒 癶 白 皮 皿 目 矛 矢 石 示 禾 穴 立 鸟 龙 钅
6 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
竹 米 糸 缶 网 羊 羽 老 而 耒 耳 聿 肉 臣 自 至 臼 舌 舟 艮 色 虍 虫 血 行 衣 西 页 齐
7 Stroke Chinese Radicals:
角 言 谷 豆 豕 豸 赤 走 足 身  辛 辰 邑 酉 釆 卤 里  龟
8 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
金 阜 隶 隹 雨 青 非 鱼 齿 黾
9 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
骨 面 革 韭 音 食 首 香 鬼
10 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
高 髟 鬲
11 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
鹿 黄 麻
12 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
黍 鼎 黑 黹
13 
Stroke Chinese Radicals:
鼓 鼠
14
 Stroke Chinese Radicals:
鼻

Friday, November 13, 2009

重组句子




1.十分 前来 中国的 于是 日本 派员 仰慕 考察 文化,。

2.时光 始终 友情 童年的 而过 不变 虽然 但同学之间 飞逝,。

3.学生对 中华文化的 加深 这次 认识 大会 透过 希望能 比赛,。

4.呢 看电视的 老师 你觉得 还是 好处多 学生 坏处多 提问:,?‘ ’

Please give your answer in the comment space.