Mandarinuses the "oldest" writing system
shared by all Chinese languages.

回来
returnHuílái
ideo: 2, 3, 4, 5

Jin Tan (Chinese teacher)
www.youtube.com
Story of Ancient China
www.youtube.com
ABChinese
www.youtube.com

talk the talk Chinese 滔滔不绝
www.youtube.com

Everyday Chinese
www.youtube.com

YiQi Hanzi 一起汉字
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Panda Knows Linguistics
www.youtube.com


214radicals:each indeogram has one
the Chinese dictionary is based on them

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search byradical
www.chinese-tools.com



Chinese writing

wikipedia.org/Chinese calligraphy

www.britannica.com/Chinese-writing



traditional | simplified

www.chinalanguage.com


汉 字
hànzì
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Hanzibasics

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How many do I need to learn?


the ideogram story | Yoyoarrow



how to master them



"simplified" ideogramsarrow


中 风顺序
zhòngfēng shùnxù(stroke order)
stroke type
www.zhongwen.com


7 basic rules

7-basic-stroke-order

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stroke order rules

stroke-order-for-characters



plug-in ideogram
to get its stroke order

www.strokeorder.info

Intro to ideograms
wikipedia.org/Chinese_characters

how they work

about themarrow
www.chinese-tools.com/characters

their meanings

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ideograms 1


that look likethings

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ideograms 2

 

representingmeanings

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ideograms 3arrow


combining2 ideas

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ideograms 4


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intro to ideogramsarrow


5 minutesarrow

reading themwith ease | ShaoLan



Chinese Characters 3000
www.youtube.com


20basic ones

266keyones


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400common ones
 

funreading
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their evolution
www.youtube.com
"traditional" ones
www.youtube.com

easylearning
www.youtube.com

animated ones
lost-theory.org
lost-theory.org/anychar

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