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Arch Chinese is a comprehensive Chinese learning system with features such as stroke animations, audio, worksheets, flashcards, dictionary, games, and more. You can search, learn, and practice Chinese characters in simplified and traditional forms, with Pinyin, tones, and radicals.
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Online Chinese-English dictionary with native speaker sound...
- Worksheets
This simple tool allows Chinese language teachers and...
- Flashcards
Learn Chinese quickly with an innovative Chinese flashcard...
- Handwriting
When all the strokes of the character are written, the...
- Pinyin & Tones
The Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Table (汉语拼音表)provides a complete...
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- Dictionary
Learn about the origin, evolution, and functions of Chinese characters, the logographs used to write Chinese and other languages. Explore the different styles, forms, and systems of Chinese characters, and how they are used in various contexts and technologies.
Not only are your search results ranked by frequency of everyday usage so you get accurate results, but it includes Mandarin pronunciation guides with audio, Cantonese pronunciations guides, simplified Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters, written Chinese stroke animations, Chinese radicals and more.
- 的 (de) of / ~’s (possessive particle) The first character to learn is 的 (de), often used as a possessive particle with a neutral tone. It might seem quite an odd character to begin with, but you will use this one so often, better learn it now.
- 一 (yī) one / 1 / a. 一 (yī) is an ideograph character, meaning that it is an abstract idea of the number 1. Radicals. n/a. Common Bigrams. 一个 (yī gè) a /an. 一些 (yī xiē) some / a few.
- 是 (shì) is / are / am / yes / to be’ 是 (shì) is commonly found to mean ‘is’ or ‘are’ in a Chinese sentence. It can also be used as ‘yes’. Radicals. 日 (rì) sun.
- 不 (bù) not / no. Radicals. The origins of the 不 (bù) character are that it depicts a bird flying up towards to the sky and out of sight. The horizontal stroke 一 shows that the sky is the limit, preventing the bird from going any further.
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Most Chinese characters are built from a combination of components. This wiki sorts characters into the following eight categories: 1. Meaning component 2. Sound component 3. Iconic component 4. Remnant component 5. Simplified component 6. Deleted component 7. Distinguishing component 8. Unknown component These categories are different from the tra...
It is difficult to find reliable information about the origins of Chinese characters. Misinformation about Chinese characters is unfortunately very common, even from Chinese teachers, and it can be frustrating to wade through all of the conflicting information out there.
The character builderis a tool for generating stroke data for obscure characters by combining strokes from other characters. For example, if the database didn't already have stroke data for 犸, you could generate it from the first three strokes of 狼 and the last three strokes of 妈. If it doesn't line up quite right, you can move and stretch the comp...
Characters in the list with a green checkmark are verified, which means they have been manually checked by a human to determine whether or not the information is correct. Pages for characters that have not been manually verified yet will show a warning message at the top to indicate that the information may not be reliable.
If you see a mistake in the dictionary or want to help add more data, feel free to suggest edits or post on the talk page for a character. Your edits must be approved first before they show up. If you have a track record of positive contributions, you will gain permission to edit without approval and to approve/reject edits from other people.
Learn about Chinese characters, including stroke orders, pronunciations, definitions, examples, origins, and component breakdowns. Explore the character components, sources of information, and character builder tools.
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Jun 25, 2024 · Learn the most frequently used Chinese characters based on data from classical and modern writings. Click on each character to hear audio and practice with StudyCli, a Chinese language school in Guilin, China.
