The Chinese Alphabet - Horizontal Hook Compound Stroke #howtowritechinese #chinesealphabet

In this third episode of the series about the Chinese alphabet, I teach you all you need to know about the horizontal+hook combo, known as 横钩 by its Chinesse name. The ㇖ has two variants. I teach you how to write three Chinese characters in which the 横钩 is combined with other characters. The three characters are 矛，令，疋. You will learn to tell the difference between ㇖ and ㇇, as well as how 疋. is written differently in the characters 定，是，走

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y9fqFPs0C70

Chinese characters are pictures - The example of the Chinese character for bird: 鸟

The pictographic myth of Chinese characters. This is what the video is debunking. When you look at the character for tiger or elephant, in Chinese 虎 and 象 respectively, you should be able to recognizing the tiger and the elephant in them. But this doesn't happen. And this also the case for the Chinese character 鸟，meaning bird. What initially was an easily recognizable picture of a thing, during a thousands-year old evolution became changed beyong recognition. Thus the pictographic myth of Chinese characters is debunked in just a matter of seconds. Why does this myth persist?

Chinese characters are pictures - The example of the Chinese character for bird: 鸟 #chinesewriting