
Explore how Chinese is a pictorial language, tracing characters from pictures to abstract forms, radicals, and phonetic components, and learn about character frequency, meaning, and pronunciation hints.
Master the Chinese character 姐 (jiě) meaning elder sister and learn proper, culturally sensitive usage for everyday Chinese, aligned with HSK 1.
This lesson centers on the Chinese character 子 (zi), its meanings as son, baby, and infant, and its use as a suffix in HSK 1 vocabulary.
Learn the Chinese character 书 (shū) and its meanings as book, documents, letters, and writing. Practice reading, writing, and note-taking with contexts like bookshop, written language, and family letter.
Explore the Chinese character 桌 (zhuō), meaning table or desk, and its use in table top, writing desk, and dishes around a table.
Explore essential clothing vocabulary from HSK 1, including coat, windbreaker, winter wear, shirt, pants, shoes, and skirt, plus phrases for changing clothes and trying on outfits.
Present the Chinese character for shoes (xié) in HSK 1 with examples about shoes, shoe makers, and related terms.
Master xiě, the art of writing Chinese characters for HSK 1, by exploring radicals and stroke order. Learn essential writing techniques and how to recognize character components for beginners.
Explore the Chinese character 学 (xué) for study and learn, including imitation, parrot learning, and revision, across education levels from primary school to university and beyond.
explore the Chinese character xiao for school and the verb jiao for check and proofreading, guiding learners to reading, vocabulary, and correct usage in HSK 1-2 context.
Explore the HSK 1 character 眼 (yǎn), meaning eye and small hole, and its usage with eyeball and related eye vocabulary through examples from this lesson.
Learn the Chinese character 睛 (jīng) meaning eyeball, its radical and reading, and explore pattern-based cues to recognize related words in HSK 1.
Identify the traditional hair radical 髮 (fà) and its meanings within HSK 1 vocabulary, and connect it to related terms like hair, hairdressing, and fashion.
Explore the Chinese character mao (毛) and its meanings of hair, feather, and down, with practical examples from basic HSK 1–2 vocabulary.
Learn the meaning of 黑 (hēi) in HSK 1, and how this black relates to color symbolism, funeral use, ink, soil, and everyday expressions of right and wrong.
Explore the Chinese character 白 (bái) meaning white, with senses like white snow, pure, and clear, and its practical use for HSK 1 learners.
Explore the Chinese character 绿 (lǜ) and its green meaning through examples like green grass, green light, green tea, and green hats in HSK 1 contexts.
Explore the character 紫 (zǐ) meaning purple and its use in HSK 1. Connect purple with color vocabulary and basic character reading related to color terms.
Explore the Chinese character 友 (friend) and its use in expressing friendship, affection, and respect in HSK 1 contexts; learn how to describe real friendship and friendly behavior.
Explore how the character 吃 and the concept of eat appear in HSK 1 examples, covering meals, snacks, meat versus vegetarian notions, medicine-related food terms, and everyday phrases.
The lecture introduces 名 (míng), the Chinese character for name, its use in asking and stating names, and related meanings like famous, with notes on the ideograph and its radical.
Learn the chinese character 听 (tīng) meaning listen and hear, with examples of listening in music and guidance on paying attention and not believing rumors.
Learn the Chinese character 姓, meaning surname or family name, and practice polite ways to ask someone's name, including distinguishing surname from given name.
Explore the Chinese character 室 (shì) and core HSK 1-2 room vocabulary for house contexts, including rooms, guest rooms, and rest areas.
Chinese Idiom story 028 一曝十寒 work by fits and starts
Introduce chengyu stories and their features, focusing on 九牛一毛, meaning a drop in the ocean. Help learners understand and apply these idioms.
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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- 101-150 according HSK,
101 姐 HSK 1 LM 1259 姐
102 妹 HSK 1 LM 1110 妹
103 子 HSK 1 LM 122 子
104 书 HSK 1 LM 171 書
105 包 HSK 1 LM 331 包
106 桌 HSK 1 LM 1372 桌
107 椅 HSK 1 LM 1742 椅
108 衣 HSK 1 LM 713 衣
109 裤 HSK 1 LM 1646 褲
110 袜 HSK 1 LM 2263 襪
111 鞋 HSK 1 LM 786 鞋
112 写 HSK 1 LM 332 寫
113 字 HSK 1 LM 223 字
114 画 HSK 1 LM 507 畫
115 去 HSK 1 LM 134 去
116 出 HSK 1 LM 64 出
117 入 HSK 1 LM 206 入
118 学 HSK 1 LM 81 學
119 生 HSK 1 LM 102 生
120 校 HSK 1 LM 494 校
121 读 HSK 1 LM 407 讀
122 汽 HSK 1 LM 1441 汽
123 脚 HSK 1 LM 864 腳
124 眼 HSK 1 LM 460 眼
125 睛 HSK 1 LM 2065 睛
126 嘴 HSK 1 LM 1299 嘴
127 巴 HSK 1 LM 888 巴
128 发 HSK 1 LM 95 發
129 毛 HSK 1 LM 585 毛
130 黑 HSK 1 LM 458 黑
131 白 HSK 1 LM 155 白
132 绿 HSK 1 LM 737 綠
133 红 HSK 1 LM 394 紅
134 蓝 HSK 1 LM 801 藍
135 紫 HSK 1 LM 982 紫
136 友 HSK 1 LM 373 友
137 叫 HSK 1 LM 282 叫
138 吃 HSK 1 LM 409 吃
139 名 HSK 1 LM 36 名
140 吗 HSK 1 LM 104 嗎
141 吧 HSK 1 LM 493 吧
142 听 HSK 1 LM 363 聽
143 喜 HSK 1 LM 708 喜
144 坐 HSK 1 LM 606 坐
145 多 HSK 1 LM 29 多
146 好 HSK 1 LM 40 好
147 姓 HSK 1 LM 1325 姓
148 孩 HSK 1 LM 1528 孩
149 客 HSK 1 LM 309 客
150 室 HSK 1 LM 229 室