The Evolution of Chinese Characters - From Picture to Writing - 兔 Rabbit

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ubch6WKCVGs The video speaks about the shocking revelation that pictographic Chinese characters are not really pictographic, and this fact is obvious in the very early oracle bone variants of the character 兔 or even 免 for that matter. This video teaches you how to write the Chinese character 兔. It also teaches you about the Chinese radical 儿 that has no bearing on the meaning of both 兔 and 免, the two characters looking eerily similar, so much so that one is left wondering how can the similarity be explained through the written evolution the two characters that are supposedly pictographic. 兔 is a pictographic representation of a rabbit, whereas 免, meaning to avoid, was originally a pictographic representation of a ceremonial hat. So in this video we will se the evolutionary stages of 兔 from oracle bone script through 篆字, all the way to the modern character.

Stroke Order in Chinese Writing - How reliable is 笔顺？

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SLuYryJQ6iw

In this video I ask an uncomfortable question. Are the rules of 笔顺 universally reliable? In this video you get the answer by examining to basic and almost identical characters: The character 力 li4, meaning power, force and 九 meaning "nine". Common and frequent they may be, but they are far from ordinary. For starters, the character 九 is listed under the radical 丿， which already makes no sense. We are baffled to discover that the strokes of both characters are written in a different order, quite the opposite of what one would expect.

The Ancient Method to Fight Fraud in China - The anti-fraud number set

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_7h4pAr6Mak This video is about the anti-fraud numerals，a very simple and old method to find against fraud. I show how the basic numbers are written with normal characters pronounced exacty like the numerals. 1 一 → 壹 2 二 → 贰 / 貳 3 三 → 叁 / 參 4 四 → 肆 5 五 → 伍 6 六 → 陆 / 陸 7 七 → 柒 8 八 → 捌 9 九 → 玖 10 十 → 拾 100 百 → 佰 1000 千 → 仟 10000 万 → 萬 The Chinese financial numeral system (大写数字 / 大寫數字), is also called bankers’ numerals or anti-fraud numerals. The earliest systematic use of financial numerals is traditionally attributed to the reign of Wu Zetian (武则天, r. 690–705) The decisive moment of formal standardization came under the Hongwu Emperor (朱元璋, r. 1368–1398), founder of the Ming dynasty. By the 19th century, anti-fraud numerals were fully embedded in Chinese commercial law and banking practice. Financial numerals remain in: Cheques Contracts Banknotes Receipts Legal documentation even into the 21st century.

Triplet Characters - Pattern repetition in Chinese writing 木 - 森 日 - 晶 口 - 品

The video shows how one character can be tripled and written as a new character with either a new pronuciation or a new meaning or both. Think of 一 三，木森，日晶 and so on. In the video I give my own favourite 10 triplets. It shows how important repetition is in Chinese writing and Chinese characters.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hjV1vqLsXdA

The simple character 六 has a very complex history

The video tells the story of an apparently extremely easy Chinese character. The Chinese character 六. The video describes its various meanings, pronunciations and written variants. It shows the original pictography meaning "hut". The Chinese character 六 was once used as a surname, but it modern times ot appears under a different pronunciation in the name of the city 六安市 from 安徽 province. The Chinese character 六 is written as 陆 when written as part of the anti-fraud set of numbers currently mandatory in use in banky and financial institutions. The character "liu" was also used as a surname, a fact attested by the sentence 蓼、六皆偃姓。《史记·杞世家》索隐 引《世本》 “Liao and Liu both belong to the Yan lineage.” This sentence appears in the received reconstruction of 《世本》 (a Warring States–early Han genealogical text) and is preserved in Sima Qian’s Shiji commentary tradition. It unambiguously treats 六 (Liu) as a clan name, parallel to 蓼, descending from the 偃 lineage

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

盲文 Chinese Braille and Chinese Characters - The Shocking Truth

盲文 Chinese Braille and Chinese Characters - The Shocking Truth

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bWIAyVofNd4

From Picture to Character and to Character Family

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kn3opFttsb4

The most complicated Chinese character - It takes 3 minutes to write it neatly

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Huáng is the most complicated character in the world. It is made up of no less than 168 character strokes. (You can count the strokes as well just to make sure) If the character were listed in dictionaries, you would find it under the radical 辶 chuò which means "to walk". In this video I am voicing my own interpretation of the meaning of the character. One can see the character as a talisman, a lucky charm if you may. Why? Because the center of the character is made up of the dragon 龍 lóng and the phoenix 鳥 fèng intertwined as if in an ethereal dance up amongst the dense clouds. The dragon and the phoenix together are a symbol of wisdom and prosperity. If we look at the character huáng, we see that apart from the radical chuò, there is the lower half of the character that represents the real world, with components such as the two mountains 山 shān populated by the three deer 鹿 lù roaming freely like the wind 風 fēng. Then, there is the upper half of the character. As if in a dream or a vision we catch a glimpse of the lofty celestial world populated by the dragon 龍 lóng and the phoenix 鳥 fèng intertwined in a dance amidst the dense clouds 昙 tán and deafening thunder 雷 léi. Having such a vision is tantamount to grasping the law (dharma 昙 tán) of yin and yang governing our universe. So the character huáng tells the story of the ultimate vision one has while walking through life (辶) in a landscape populated by deer (鹿) roaming in the mountains (山山). At the heart of the chararacter is the dragon (龍) and the phoenix (鳥) that fly (飛) playfully together amongst the dense clouds (昙) and deafening thunder 雷 léi.