Chinese characters are also known as sinographs, and the Chinese writing system as sinography.


The number of Chinese characters contained in the Kangxi dictionary is approximately 47,035, although a large number of these are rarely used variants accumulated throughout history. Studies carried out in China have shown that full literacy in the Chinese language requires a knowledge of only between three and four thousand characters.


Don't need to be scared about it! There are four key elements to learn Chinese Characters well, they are:

笔划 bǐ huà Strokes

笔顺 bǐ shun Order of Strokes

将汉字音声化 jiāng hàn zì yīn shēng huà Pronounce

阅读量 yuè dú liàng Reading


There are also pictographic characters

人的五官：目　耳　口　舌　手　足

w 自然事物：木　林　森　火　日　月　山　水　云
w 动物：牛　羊　马　鹿　象　鸟　燕　鸡　兔　鱼　龟
w 抽象：上　下

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Pin Yin –Basic Step to Learn Chinese Language

Consonants (23):
b p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r z c s y w
Vowels (24):
a o e i u ü ai ao an ang ou ong ei en er eng ie iu in ing ui un üe ün

汉语拼音分为声母和韵母, 和英语的音标同样重要，它是采用拉丁字母拼写汉字的一种文字工具。
学习汉语拼音是学习汉语的关键钥匙，只有掌握它，才能进行标准发音。学会了汉语拼音，您就可以有自学的基础，可以拼读有注音的汉语读物，还可以自己查字典，可以校正自己的口语，从而学好汉语。 可见，汉语拼音对于学习汉语的重要性!

Chinese Phonetic Alphabet includes Shengmu (consonants) and Yunmu (vowels), it is as same important as English Phonetic Alphabet when you learn English. Chinese Pinyin is a kind of tool used for spelling Chinese characters.

Learning Chinese Pinyin is an important key to learning Chinese. It helps you in mastering the standard pronunciation of Chinese characters. After mastering Chinese Pinyin, you may have the basis of learning yourself, you may read the Chinese books with Pinyin marked, learn Chinese characters by looking up the dictionary and thus you can see the importance.
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