What is Arch Chinese?

Arch Chinese is a premier Chinese learning system crafted by Chinese teachers in the United States for Mandarin Chinese language learners at K-12 schools and universities. The features of the system are distilled from user feedback and feature requests from the Chinese learning community.

How many Mandarin radicals are there?

Chinese radicals can hold information about the character meaning and/or sound. There are around 200 radicals in Chinese, and they are used to index and categorize characters.

Which character has a horizontal stroke as its first stroke?

When horizontal and vertical strokes cross, horizontal strokes are usually written before vertical strokes: the character for “ten”, 十, has two strokes. The horizontal stroke, 一, is written first, followed by the vertical stroke, to obtain 十.

What is the stroke order for Chinese?

Characters should generally be written from top to bottom, left to right. Horizontal strokes go from left to right. If you have two horizontal strokes, then the top one comes first. This can be seen in characters like 二 or 首.

How can I learn Chinese characters?

9 Clever Steps to Effectively Learn Chinese Characters

Break the characters down into components.
Visualize the characters in your mind.
Build from your previous knowledge.
Don’t forget the pinyin.
Get the pronunciation down.
Bring on the tones.
Rely on familiar characters.
Practice, practice and practice some more.

Should I learn Chinese radicals first?

it is important to learn radicals and as you memorize more characters you will naturally learn what the radicals are, but learning radicals first i think will just make things confusing, and as a beginner it can be difficult to identify which parts of characters are radicals and which parts are phonetic components.

Do Chinese characters have radicals?

Traditional Chinese groups all characters according to 214 radicals (simplified uses 189), which are organized based on number of strokes into a chart called the bushou. Each radical is itself a freestanding character-word, such as one, woman, child, cliff, field, tree, millet, halberd, leather, and bird.

What are the six basic rules of stroke order?

The six main rules of Chinese stroke order

Top to bottom. Chinese: 从上到下 (cóng shàng dào xià)
Left to right.
First horizontal, then vertical.
First right-to-left diagonals, then left-to-right diagonals.
Center comes first in vertically symmetrical characters.
Move from outside to inside and close frames last.

What are the 4 basic Chi writing rules?

Chinese writing rules

Draw the line down to the left and then down the right.
Write downward.
Write from left to right.
Trace the external strokes before interior strokes.
Close after filling the frame.
When a character is symmetrical, tracing the line of the middle first.

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