Chinese character, Chinese culture.
@chineseontheair (20)
China
September 22, 2008 10:22pm CST
Chinese components
There are three aspects to the structure of a Chinese character, the strokes, the components, and the whole character.
the components are the core structure of a Chinese character.
Today we talk about one character.
The character "?" (mountain)is a pictograph, in oracle-bone script, it looks like three mountains. The number three in Chinese means multitude, so three mountains represent a chain of mountains. Later, three mountains were simplified into three vertical strokes:this is how the Chinese character"?”came into being.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Sep 08
chineseonthe air hi and welcome to mylot. now I understand a
bit moreabout Chinese characters and understand that a figure that looks like a man might just be the character for the word man.thanksfor the information as i did not know anything about the language