Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ubch6WKCVGs The video speaks about the shocking revelation that pictographic Chinese characters are not rea...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Stroke Order in Chinese Writing - How reliable is 笔顺？

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SLuYryJQ6iw In this video I ask an uncomfortable question. Are the rules of 笔顺 universally reliable...
Friday, February 20, 2026

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

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_7h4pAr6Mak This video is about the anti-fraud numerals，a very simple and old method to find against fraud....
Thursday, February 19, 2026

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

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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. T...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

The simple character 六 has a very complex history

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The video tells the story of an apparently extremely easy Chinese character. The Chinese character 六. The video describes its various mean...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

盲文 Chinese Braille and Chinese Characters - The Shocking Truth

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盲文 Chinese Braille and Chinese Characters - The Shocking Truth https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bWIAyVofNd4
Thursday, February 5, 2026

From Picture to Character and to Character Family

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kn3opFttsb4
Thursday, January 29, 2026

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

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Premiere in 2 hours https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PkYLYaoWP_4 Huáng is the most complicated character in the world. It is made up of ...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

中文 Compare 2 Chinese people to get THIS: 比

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AOJ_ZP2iD2o This video teaches you how to form a more complex Chinese character from two identical basic c...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

How to say NO in Chinese without saying 不

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Can you say "no" or "not" in Chinese without using the word 不? Watch this video to see how it can be done. First I show ...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Taoist immortals and Chinese Characters

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The video explores how the iconic karst landscapes of Guilin inspired the creation of early Chinese pictographic characters. It explains how...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Yip Man, Bruce Lees's Mentor The Ancient Connection 叶问

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Yip Man, Bruce Lees's Mentor The Ancient Connection 叶问 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oNqTWpvhvvU
Thursday, November 20, 2025

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

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With the help of several common Chinese characters, this unconventional video shows how important the size of similar looking characters h...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

黄 The Yellow Emperor and the Yellow River

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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 ...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

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

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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 st...
Friday, November 14, 2025

I got rid of my hernia.

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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 me...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Coming Soon

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Chinese Daoism and Chinese Characters

The 90-degree horizontal-vertical character stroke

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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 cha...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

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

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AN INTERESTING EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS AND WRITING This video shows the evolution of the Chinese character (马) 馬 mǎ.Ini...

㇇The 4th Letter of The Chinese Alphabet 横撇 héngpiě

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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 whic...

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

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The pictographic myth of Chinese characters. This is what the video is debunking. When you look at the character for tiger or elephant, in C...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

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

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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...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Fallacy of Pictographic Chinese Characters

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Are Chinese characters pictographs? Check out this video that premiers tomororrow. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GSeUxYSuvVs

The Chinese Alphabet

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I am starting a new series about the Chinese "alphabet", the individual strokes of Chinese writing. Stay tuned for more. Here is ...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Vocabulary in Chinese influenced by multiple layers of contact

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Here is a comprehensive table showing that core lexical, technical, ritual, and political vocabulary in Chinese was influenced by multiple l...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Mysterious Chinese character 寡 - Easy to remember, difficult to write #chinesewriting

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The video is about the character 寡. This character is problematic because despite being a rather common character, it is very difficult to v...

Two unlikely Twins: Schwarzenegger and De Vito and the unique Chinese character twins 忙 and 忘

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Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito in the movie Twins make an unusual pair, but so do the Chinese character twins 忘 and 忙 re...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Schwarzenegger's Nose and the Painful Reality of Chinese Writing

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This video means to tackle with the difficult reality of some easy-to-recognize-but-painfully-difficult-to-write characters. One such charac...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Easy yet difficult Chinese characters - Semantic Onions of multiple layers #防御defend

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Premiere on the 8th of october 12.00 a.m. Many frequent Chinese characters are simply impossible to write from memory. All this desp...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Cum a pierdut Romania dreptul de "good delivery"?

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Cum a pierdut Romania dreptul de a marca aurul! Arhivasept. 30, 20132 4181 Tara noastra a fost scoasa de pe lista producatorilor de aur cert...

Chinese characters are like LEGO blocks

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Premiere on the 30th, at 00.00 am