Chinese Characters EXPLAINED

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• AB

  @ABChinese · 3 years ago · pinned

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• GR

  @GraceMandarinChinese · 3 years ago

  I can’t imagine how long you took to edit this video… So much information in one video! Amazing✨

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• NI

  @Ninebreak999 · 1 year ago

  The character for &quot;hand&quot; and &quot;bag&quot; make hug. That is so wholesome and beautiful.

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• MA

  @Madoxwin · 3 years ago (edited)

  Actually there is an origin to the word 我 。 it is a combination of hand 手 and dagger-axe 戈 . Because chinese words originated thousands of years ago, it is based on the cultural settings during that period. Most of the ancient chinese people are either a farmer/peasant or a soldier , farmers used farming tools that looks like pickaxe/rake and soldiers used spears. That is why they &nbsp;called themselves 我。The emperor on the other hand used a different pronoun because he didnt need to farm or go to war. The emperor called himself 朕。

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• SE

  @selavyt5877 · 3 years ago

  I actually do recommend guessing the pronunciation of every Chinese character you don’t know using the semantic-phonetic method, that’s exactly how Chinese kiddos grow their vocabulary. Reading half a character(the phonetic half) is very common among Chinese kids. Guessing before knowing helps understanding and is incredibly fun, just make silly mistakes and correct yourself or luckily enough, corrected by teachers, co-learners and friends.

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• YA

  @yakitatefreak · 3 years ago (edited)

  Notice how 我 looks very similar to the combination of two characters 手 and 戈. This may indeed potentially be the origin of the meaning behind the history of the character. This character is indeed a cognate of another historic character that represents “I”. 吾 or 吾人was used by Japanese and Chinese people prior to favoring 我.<br><br>By that principle, the character (and the compound 言語) for language “語” has the radical and character of speech “言” and the right hand side symbolizes I “吾” probably having something to do with “My speech” or “I speak” referring to first person’s point of view of language. Fascinating considering that the character 我 has little to do with the character for language.

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• JO

  @joash_c.5693 · 3 years ago

  Honestly, Chinese people rarely uses this way in daily life because they just depend more on their memory. The only time they use this is for words they forgot or don&apos;t understand and then procced to make a educated guess.

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• LA

  @lannapasher2914 · 2 years ago

  Infinite craft ahh language

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• EA

  @easytriops5951 · 2 years ago

  The fact we get this for free is mind-blowing to me!

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• RU

  @rufus8765 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve learnt more in ten minutes than I have a trimester. Fantastic work, please do more of this style video

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• FU

  @futureguy · 2 years ago

  As a native Chinese speaker, this video really provides such a clear and meaningful explanation!

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• WR

  @wrpSoCal3838 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m working with an OLD brain and trying to teach it NEW things! Learning Chinese is one of those things. This is VERY helpful info 😊 Now i just have to retain it! 😉

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