Learning Chinese Vocabulary in Cantonese 【一】.

If you just started learning Chinese, whether in Mandarin or Cantonese, learning Chinese characters will definitely help you boost your Chinese ability. Chinese words may look complex to begin with, but once you start to understand the system more, everything will make more sense to you. One of the efficient ways is to learn Chinese literatures. Think of them as a base of the Chinese character. It can give you some clue of this Chinese character. In this video, we'll go through some Chinese words that are formed by the same Chinese radical. Can you guess what the radical is? This Chinese radical is not only the easiest one to write, but also one of the commonly used words as well, and this is it. This character looks pretty straightforward. Yes, it means one. Besides meaning one, it is also a Chinese radical itself. Now, the following characters are formed by the radical. Yep, I will go through them based on the numbers of the strokes. It is seven. The hand gesture of seven looks like this. It has two strokes. It is three. Three, nine, four, three. Easy to remember, right? It doesn't mean it is up. Imagine there is something above the line, up. Here are a few words that go with the character. It means about. It means supervisor. It means superior. 上 can also refer to something that has passed, as in last. So, 上年 means last year. When 上 is used as an action, its tone will be changed from its 6th tone to its 5th tone, like 上车, which means get in a car. 上山, which means going up the mountain. 下 basically means down. Remember something below the line? Down. Here are a few words that go with the character 下. 下年, which means below. 下等, which means inferior. 下 can also refer to something that is going next, like 下年 means next year. 世, which basically means lifetime. Here are a few words that go with the character 世. 世代, which means one lifetime. 世代, which means generation. 世代, which means the world. That's all for now. If you'd like to learn how to write Chinese numbers from 1 to 10, please check out this video. See you next time! 下次见!