When size matters! 日曰囗口 Same shape different size!

With the help of several common Chinese characters, this unconventional video shows how important the size of similar looking characters helps one telling the difference between them. The couples of characters we look at are: 囗 口 combined in 吕 and 回， 日 曰 combined in 昌. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RDgOR61m5CA

黄 The Yellow Emperor and the Yellow River

黄 is a strange character. One the one hand it is common, think of the Yellow Emperor and the Yellow River, but as a radical it only appears in the character 黈 meaning yellow, and in the character 黌 hóng meaning "school". How is this possible. A radical that functions as a phonetic component. This is uber strange PREMIERE ON THE 20TH OF NOV. 12:00 A.M.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PbumLo0sJys

Chinese letter with hook The 7th letter of the Chinese alphabet

The Basics of Chinese Writing - To be able to write Chinese well you first need to grasp the basics, that is to say the 笔画，the individual strokes of the Chinese alphabet. In this episode we will be looking at three Chinese characters written with the help of the compound stroke 横折钩, the horizontal-vertical-with-a-hook combo. I will demonstrate how this stroke is used in the following three Chinese characters: 习, 匀 and 月. Do not forget to support my work by pressing the like button, sharing my videos, leaving a comment and subscribing to my channel.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UBcpuHd7ylU

I got rid of my hernia.

I had a hernia 疝气 repair surgey exactly one week ago, so I thought I would teach you how to say hernia in both common Chinese and also in medical jargon 腹股沟疝. You will learn about two very useful radical components that occur in Chinese characters related to the body and its parts 月, as well as the radical for ailment and disease 疒. I will also point out the similarity between the radical for meat or body and the character radical moon, that can be rather confusing. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AFvsUCxnPWQ

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Chinese Daoism and Chinese Characters

The 90-degree horizontal-vertical character stroke

Youtube premiere on Tuesday, the 11th of Nov. at 00.00 am This video is the 6th episode in the series dedicated to the 笔画, the Chinese characters stroke, or as I call it, the Chinese alphabet. Today we focus on the 横折, the horizontal-vertical combo. We look at three usage examples: the character 囗，己 and 田. We try to understand the difference between the characters 己 and 已, and the characters 囗 and 口。 The difference between these last two characters becomes clear when we combine them into a new character, the character 回. In this video I demonstrate how to write the three characters by hand.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LbWIi-4XTQc

Where did the horse go? Spectacular transformation of 马, the Chinese character for Horse

AN INTERESTING EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS AND WRITING This video shows the evolution of the Chinese character (马) 馬 mǎ.Initially, the character was clearly a pictographic representation of a horsa, but with time, the iconicty was lost beyond recognition. This video is an excellent example of how Chinese characters, Chinese writing and Chinese characters change and form over time. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/svyCRSvtpck

㇇The 4th Letter of The Chinese Alphabet 横撇 héngpiě

Today's video is about the 横撇 héngpiě in Chinese, which is a horizontal and left slanting curve combo. Let us see some examples in which the 横撇 héngpiě stroke is used:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-AM42H5gcBk

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? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oUOMaWBUPt8

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