
Explore how Chinese characters began as pictorial signs and evolved through radicals and components, linking form and meaning. Preview essential early characters and pronunciation cues for HSK 1–2.
Learn the HSK 1 character qián, meaning front, before, or ago, and its use to express go forward and time‑related ideas in basic Chinese.
Explain the Chinese character 后 (hòu) and its meanings behind, back, after, and empress, with examples like behind you and later generation, plus notes on consequences and responsibility.
Explore 左, the Chinese character for left, its meaning for the left side and hand orientation, and the origins of indicators in early Chinese writing for HSK 1.
Discover the Chinese character 右 (yòu) meaning right side, and its uses as right hand and keeping to the right. Explore how direction and control appear in HSK 1 contexts.
Explore the Chinese character 风 (fēng, wind), its basic writing rules, and related wind imagery, weather, scenery, and cultural symbols mentioned in the caption.
Explore the Chinese character 云 (yún) meaning cloud, with vivid imagery of rosy clouds, mist, snow, and skies, as used in beginner HSK 1-2 vocabulary.
Learn the Chinese character for rain (雨) and its basic readings, usage with related terms, and how rain, umbrellas, and storms shape daily life.
Explore the Chinese character 电 (diàn) meaning electricity and lightning, and its radical, with examples of electricity-related terms from everyday tech like phones and television to reinforce HSK 1–2 vocabulary.
Explore the Chinese pronouns you and me (nǐ) and polite usage, including greetings like how are you, with a focus on radicals and left-to-right writing.
Learn the Chinese pronouns I, me, we in the hsk 1 lesson 0060 我, with practical examples that illustrate usage for self and plural reference.
Learn the chinese pronoun tā meaning he or him in hsk 1, with examples and practice to distinguish he, him, she, and it while building basic sentence reading.
Explore HSK 1 pronouns ta, she, her, and basic Chinese vocabulary with phonetic components and practical examples for beginner learners.
Explore the Chinese character 男 (nán), meaning man or male, and its basic usage in HSK 1, including its association with fields and work.
Explore the Chinese character 女, meaning female or girl, and its use for women and gender in everyday context, with examples of related terms.
Explore the Chinese character lao 老 and its varied meanings for age, kinship, and respect, and how it functions as a prefix in HSK 1–2 volume 2.
Learn the Chinese character 少 (shǎo), meaning few or little, with practical examples on counting, shopping, and expressing small amounts in HSK 1 material—part 1.
Discover the Chinese character 少 (shǎo) meaning few or little and its use in common phrases for quantities, money, and shop contexts in HSK 1-2 volume 2.
Explore 花 huā as the HSK 1 character for flower, blossom, and bloom, and its related meanings in basic Chinese vocabulary.
Learn the Chinese character hua for flowers and blossom, exploring its cultural meanings, gift-giving symbolism, festival references, and related notes on pollen and romantic imagery.
Explore the Chinese character 草 (cǎo) meaning grass or straw, its use in HSK 1, and related terms about grass fields, pastures, and agricultural context.
Learn the character 树 (shù) and its meanings: tree, to plant, and to cultivate, with ideas of establishing and upholding; the caption also links branches, shade, and yin and yang.
Learn the Chinese character 林 (lín), meaning wood, grove, or forest, and connect its core sense to forests, trees, and tropical rainforest contexts mentioned in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Master the HSK 1 character sēn, meaning forest and full of trees, and its dark, gloomy nuances for beginner Chinese learners.
Explore the origin of Chinese characters through the chicken character 鸡, examining its forms, radicals, idioms, and everyday examples like eggs, fried chicken, and soup.
Learn the Chinese character 鸭 (yā) for duck, with simple examples and related HSK 1-2 vocabulary, including references to Beijing and the ugly duckling.
Learn the goose character (鹅) for HSK 1 in volume 2, exploring its usage, radicals, and related animal vocabulary such as chicken and duck through practical examples.
Explore the Chinese character 瓜 (guā) and its meanings—melon, gourd, and watermelon—through vivid fruit imagery, origins from the west along the silk road, and practical guidance for HSK 1.
Explore the character 果 (guǒ), meaning fruit and result, and its use as a radical, with examples like 'reap what you sow' and related phrases.
Learn the hsk 1 character 爪 (zhuǎ) meaning claw, its pictorial form resembling a clock, and key tips for recognizing and writing this chinese character.
This lecture explains the Chinese character 抓 (zhuā) with meanings like seize, grasp, arrest, and scratch, and shows figurative uses such as grabbing a golden opportunity and drawing attention.
Learn the Chinese character for river (河) and its pronunciation hé. Explore its use in the Yellow River and build essential HSK 1 vocabulary.
Explore the Chinese character 海 (hǎi) meaning sea, with stroke order, radical guidance, and context hints like Shanghai and access to the ocean for HSK 1–2.
Explore sea vocabulary and coastal imagery through basic Chinese terms for ocean, harbor, beach, seafood, snorkeling, and related scenes, as introduced in HSK 1-2, volume 2.
Explore the character 星 (xīng), its meaning as star, and how it describes celebrities and movie stars in HSK 1.
Introduce the Chinese character 阳 (yáng) meaning sun, and its relation to yin and yang, highlighting sun, sunshine, solar energy, and related terms in hsk 1.
Learn the Chinese character 球 and build essential sports vocabulary, covering ball-related terms across table tennis, tennis, bowling, basketball, and other ball games.
Explore the Chinese character 亮 (liàng), meaning light, bright, or shiny. Learn its usage, pronunciation, and how brightness and clarity convey meaning in context.
Learn the Chinese character 从 meaning follow, obey, follower, and attendant, with examples of how to express following, obedience, and related phrases in sentences and songs.
Master the Chinese character 走 (zǒu) meaning walk, including senses like walk, depart, travel, and visit, and learn go by foot and pay a visit phrases for HSK 1.
Master the Chinese character 跑 (pǎo) meaning to run or run away, with examples such as running fast, the 100 meters, and running errands, as part of HSK 1-2 vocabulary.
Explore the Chinese character 跳 (tiào) meaning jump, leap, spring, and bounce in HSK 1, with examples like jumping over a ditch and moving up and down.
Learn the Chinese character 妈, pronounced mā, meaning mother at the HSK 1 level, and how it appears in everyday terms like mama and mother.
Learn the character 爸, meaning dad or father, within HSK 1 vocabulary, and see how family terms like papa and mama illustrate its usage in everyday scenes.
Learn the Chinese character 爷 (yé), meaning grandfather, and its use in basic family terms at HSK 1 level, including distinctions from father and mother.
Master the character 奶 (nǎi) meaning milk and its role in HSK 1 vocabulary. Explore related family terms like grandmother, mother, and baby through simple, everyday phrases.
Explore the Chinese character 奶 meaning milk and breast, and its use in describing breastfeeding, baby feeding, and related terminology for HSK 1.
Explore 面 (miàn) as face and surface, its radical role, and its link to wheat flour through examples like face to face and everyday appearance.
Learn the Chinese character 饭 (fàn), meaning cooked rice and meal, its radical and phonetic notes, and its use in breakfast and dining phrases for HSK 1.
Learn the Chinese character for say (shuō) and its radical, and explore how talk and speech connect to words in hsk 1 through teaching approaches.
Explore basic Chinese singing vocabulary for HSK 1, including words for song, sing, chorus, and performance, with examples from scenes and dialogue.
Explore the Chinese character 喝 (hē) meaning drink, its radical, and its use with tea and alcohol within the HSK 1 context as presented in the course material.
Explore the Chinese characters 游/遊, meaning swim and travel, including traditional vs simplified forms, related radicals, and usage in travel and movement contexts.
Explore the Chinese character 哥 gē (elder brother) and its use in family terms, as part of the HSK 1 vocabulary covered in this volume.
Learn the HSK 1 character 弟 meaning younger brother, its pronunciation dì, and the stroke sequence with basic writing tips to recall its form.
Explore the Chinese idiom 一字千金, where one character is worth thousands of taels of gold and its meaning and usage unfold within literary context.
Discover the idiom 一鼓作气, meaning to get something done in one vigorous effort, and learn how to push through initial momentum to finish tasks in a single go.
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Chinese is a pictorial language and is the only Language which has no Alphabet. Chinese Characters originated from picture. According legend, Cang Jie (仓颉) created Chinese Characters or scripts. Inspired by the trace of bird and animal, he created Chinese Characters or scripts by observing the nature shape such as Sun, moon, wood. Around one third of the total population on the earth are still using Chinese Characters. The creation and evolution of Chinese Characters is closely interwoven with the development of Chinese Culture and has long lasting impact on Japan, Korean, Vietnam, and Thailand... etc.
Chinese Characters are an important tool for extending, spreading and exchanging idea. Chinese Characters contain information and will never be replaced by Alphabet in other languages.
It is a daunting challenge to foreigner as well as native Chinese. But good news for you, we have secrets to share with you how to study Chinese in a smarter way:
Guessing! Guessing by Chinese Radicals. There are around 220 Chinese Radicals in my collections. But the Most Common 20 Chinese Radicals which account 51% of total Chinese Characters.
We will arrange the Chinese Radicals according their importance and give you the most important 60 Chinese Radicals in 3 courses.
Overall, there will be two series to cover Chinese Radicals and boost your vocabulary.
1 HSK Reading Skills-Guess by Chinese Radicals, Quick View
2 HSK Reading Skills-Guess by Chinese Radicals in Details
Quick View of Chinese Radicals will give you a big picture of Chinese Characters, something like a key to open the treasure.
HSK Reading Skills-Guess by Chinese Radicals in details
We will explain Chinese Radicals with the most common Chinese Characters in HSK 1 - 6 (Chinese Proficiency Test Level 1-6).
After boot camping of Chinese Characters, we will test your understanding by reading quiz.
In each video, there is a section call "Vocabulary Builder", which is our many years’ effort in Chinese teaching as a secondary language.
The main features of "Vocabulary Builder" are:
1 The best possible English translations. The English translation is referring to Oxford Dictionary and other online dictionaries. Clear English translation is SO important for foreigner students to learn Chinese.
Each Character and even phrases may have many meanings. Accurate English translation will give you a crystal clear view on Chinese phrases.
2 Up-to-date and updating. We have go thought the whole Oxford Dictionary and other recourses to collect more than 60,000 phrases with the best translation possible for our reference in editing materials.
We are updating more than 5000 new phrases into our collections to reflect the ever-never fast changing China.
3 Indicating the difficulty level of Phrase according to HSK levels.
You will not see such Classifications in any other dictionaries. Our unique classification provides a framework for selecting of articles. Choosing material suitable for students’ level and evaluate their progress is an Art of teaching.
4 The most important thing is the Vocabulary Builder.
This is more than just a vocabulary list. It is a Language Builder based on the Chinese language’s special features and our 25 years' experience.
The Vocabulary Builder will find and list out the connections among Chinese Characters, expand into more phrases. We will use sentence to show how to use the new phrase in context, to point out the common booby trap.
Vocabulary Builder actually is our natural process of Language Building.
The Most Common Used Chinese Characters- 51-100 according HSK, Trace the roots and Expand Vocabulary in a Smart Way . In this course, we will cover:
50 北 HSK 1 LM 169 北
51 前 HSK 1 LM 87 前
52 后 HSK 1 LM 46 後
53 左 HSK 1 LM 558 左
54 右 HSK 1 LM 597 右
55 风 HSK 1 LM 274 風
56 云 HSK 1 LM 168 雲
57 雨 HSK 1 LM 444 雨
58 电 HSK 1 LM 201 電
59 你 HSK 1 LM 68 你
60 我 HSK 1 LM 12 我
61 他 HSK 1 LM 91 他
62 她 HSK 1 LM 219 她
63 男 HSK 1 LM 161 男
64 女 HSK 1 LM 93 女
65 老 HSK 1 LM 250 老
66 少 HSK 1 LM 235 少
67 花 HSK 1 LM 180 花
68 草 HSK 1 LM 689 草
69 树 HSK 1 LM 678 樹
70 林 HSK 1 LM 301 林
71 森 HSK 1 LM 825 森
72 鸡 HSK 1 LM 1021 雞
73 鸭 HSK 1 LM 1828 鴨
74 鹅 HSK 1 LM 2096 鵝
75 瓜 HSK 1 LM 1805 瓜
76 果 HSK 1 LM 675 果
77 爪 HSK 1 LM 2259 爪
78 抓 HSK 1 LM 691 抓
79 河 HSK 1 LM 599 河
80 海 HSK 1 LM 181 海
81 星 HSK 1 LM 324 星
82 阳 HSK 1 LM 952 陽
83 球 HSK 1 LM 496 球
84 亮 HSK 1 LM 777 亮
85 从 HSK 1 LM 106 從
86 走 HSK 1 LM 195 走
87 跑 HSK 1 LM 857 跑
88 跳 HSK 1 LM 837 跳
89 妈 HSK 1 LM 1378 媽
90 爸 HSK 1 LM 1498 爸
91 爷 HSK 1 LM 1984 爺
92 奶 HSK 1 LM 1315 奶
93 面 HSK 1 LM 231 面
94 饭 HSK 1 LM 1007 飯
95 说 HSK 1 LM 100 說
96 唱 HSK 1 LM 684 唱
97 喝 HSK 1 LM 968 喝
98 游 HSK 1 LM 426 遊
99 哥 HSK 1 LM 378 哥
100 弟 HSK 1 LM 1381 弟