3 Tips to Learn Chinese Characters Easily

Chinese Characters are appearing at more and more places nowadays. From road signs to the hottest tattoos you can see the influence of Chinese culture. In western countries more and more people start to learn Chinese Characters for various reasons. However, to learn how to write this ancient language is kind of challenging to most western people. And without a teacher, most people don’t know where to start.

Here are 3 tips to take you step by step to learn Chinese characters in an easy and organized way. Make sure you do follow the steps one by one and don’t skip any of them

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1. Learn the basic strokes

When you learn Chinese characters you don’t straightly start to learn the complex characters, you start with the basic strokes. If you start to learn the characters immediately you will feel like you are in a maze. When native Chinese start to learn characters they also start from the basic strokes.

There are basic strokes, dependent strokes and compound strokes.

The basic strokes are:

• “Heng”: Horizontal
• “Shu”: Vertical
• “Pie”: Left – Falling
• “Na”:  Right – Falling
• “Dian”: Dot
• “Ti”: Lift

If you separate a Chinese character into signal strokes you will find actually it’s very easy to identify all the strokes. Of course there are some stroke variations. But they are all based on these 6 strokes.

2. Learn the Chinese radicals

At this stage you are aware of all the strokes. There is one more important skill you should learn before you start to try characters. That is the Chinese radicals. All the characters are formed by radicals and strokes, and radicals are formed by strokes as well. Chinese characters are hieroglyphics. All the radicals have their own meaning. This is very different with western languages. When you learn the radicals you will also learn the meaning of the radicals and it will be very handy at later stage.

3. Learn the structures to form characters

If you want to learn Chinese Characters the structures of the characters are must to learn knowledge. There are rules about how to use the radicals to form characters. Some characters are independent characters which formed by the strokes, and some characters are compound – component characters which formed by radicals.

The basic structures of compound – component characters are:

• Left – Right Structures
• Top – Bottom Structures
• Partial Enclosure Structures
• Two – Side Enclosure Structures
• Three – side Enclosure Structures
• Complete Enclosure Structures

If you do follow the three steps exactly I can guarantee you will see the Chinese characters in a new and meaningful way and you won’t get confused any more. However, this is just a guide to tell you which way to go. You will still need the materials about details. I recommend you to check out the Rocket Chinese pack. In this program they offer the high quality videos to take you stroke by stroke to learn Chinese Characters. You can see the sample video by the following link:

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