Chinese Character Courses _ Lesson 02 _ Basic Chinese Strokes _ Single-component Characters (2)

Hello everyone, this is Yaya Mandarin. Welcome to my Chinese character courses. In this lesson, we will learn 3 simple strokes of Chinese characters and 5 single-component characters. Let's do a quick review now. In the previous lesson, we learned 5 strokes. The horizontal line 横 The vertical line 竖 The left falling line 撇 The right falling line 捺 And the dot 点 Now please check the exercise from our last lesson. We need to find the strokes in the characters. The first character, you need to find 点 点 on top You need to find 捺 in the second character 捺 竖 in the third character 竖 横 in the fourth character 横 And 撇 in the fifth character 撇 There are 3 撇 in the last character. Did you get it all right? 你答对了吗? OK OK, now let's start our new lesson. We will start by learning to write a new Chinese character 步 which means know 步 is the original word for embryo And the top 横 stands for the ground And the few lines below stands for the radical of plant 步 has 4 strokes 横 撇 竖 点 One more time 横 撇 竖 点 Next we will learn the first new stroke today 横折 横折 is a horizontal turning line 折 means to turn There are some characters with this stroke For example 口 mouth And 日 sun And to meet 见 We will learn how to write mouth 口 and to meet 见 today The character 口 is very simple The shape of it is like the shape of our mouth It has 3 strokes 竖 横折 横 竖 横折 横 And then the second character 见 The traditional form of it means someone opened his eyes and looked ahead And it has a 目 Which means eyes on the top And the person 人 at the bottom What we are going to practice today is a simplified version There are 4 strokes of 见 竖 横折 撇 竖弯钩 竖 横折 撇 竖弯钩 Don't worry about the last stroke We will learn it in the future The second new stroke is 竖折 Which means vertical turning There are some examples with this stroke For example Mountain 山 To come or to go out 出 There are 2 竖折 in the characters We will learn how to write 山 today 山 was originally shaped like rolling mountains We will start with the stroke 竖 in the middle So it will be like 竖 竖折 竖 竖折 竖 The last stroke is called 竖勾 As you can see 竖勾 is a vertical hook Some characters like small 小 And 丁 has this stroke For this stroke, we will learn how to write 小 小 was originally shaped like tiny grains of sand Now it means small Opposite to 大 big We will start with the stroke 竖勾 in the middle And the 撇 on the left And then the 点 on the right side One more time 竖勾 撇 点 You can practice the following Chinese characters by yourself 布 口 箭 山 小 That's all for today's lesson See you next time