linguaholic Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 From now on, I would like to introduce a new chinese character every day.Today is day 1, so I would like to start with one of the most frequent Chinese characters.This is the chinese character 的 (de). The traditional character looks the same (also 的). The meaning is "possessive article"Some sample sentences for you and yours:我的妈妈四十八岁。 // My mother is 48 years old.她的哥哥很聪明。 // My brother is very intelligent我的书在哪儿？ // Where is my book?.Feel free to provide more definitions and sample sentences for the character 的。 Zhenni 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted September 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Today, I will introduce two new characters, as I did not have time to upload a new one yesterday. Let us start with the character 是, which stands for the verb "to be" in English. (Click on the "second" sequence picture and you will see the sequence in "zoom mode".)Sample sentences:他是我的朋友。 // He is my friend.你是不是德国人？ // You are from Germany, right? // Are you German?今天是母亲66岁生日。// Today it is my mother's 66Lionel Messi 是世界上最好的足球运动员。 // Lionel Messi is the best football player in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinderr Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 Thank you but I am not up to this quite now! It is very complicated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedonologist Posted December 8, 2013 Report Share Posted December 8, 2013 Nice idea! Maybe you could do a common one and a less common one, as I've already studied Chinese for a short while I was already acquainted with those two characters. I'm looking forward to more though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted December 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2013 I might do more difficult ones in another thread though as this should be a help for beginners. Would that be ok then for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimashin Posted December 24, 2013 Report Share Posted December 24, 2013 This is a great idea but may I also suggest that you should first complete the beginner section before moving on to intermediate or expert so that learners can get to the basics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted January 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2014 You are right Daimashin. Anyway, I do not have time for this at the moment, but after my exams I might add a character or too a day and provide some sample sentences for each character. I will most probably stick with easy (high frequency) characters first, that's a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly14Cat Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 You haven't posted on this in a while, does that mean it's not happening anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 It does not mean that it is not happening anymore at all, however I have been very busy recently so I stopped doing it. Still, if you have a question about Chinese/Chinese Characters, feel free to ask me about it at any given time! :grin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiaoXing Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 I don't know how to find good images of stroke order, butI can post a new word for beginners until this picks up again.今天jin1tian1今天是我的生日。 Today is my birthday今天太热了。 Today is too hot.今天你想做什么? What do you want to do today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiaoXing Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 吃chi1to eat你想吃什么？ What do you want to eat?ni3xiang3chi1shen2me?我想吃三明治。 Want to eat a sandwich.wo3xiang3chi1san1ming2zhi我没吃。 I haven't eaten.wo3mei2chi1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted March 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Hey XiaoXingThank you for those posts! I should probably provide some new material here in this thread.I am studying Chinese at the University of Zurich, so I got lots of characters to present :=)Best wishesLingua Zhenni 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhenni Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 去 qù This means to go, leave or depart. It is a verb. Example sentences: 你去哪儿？Nǐ qù nǎr? [Pinyin] which means Where are you going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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