How to Learn Chinese Characters - All about Hanzi & Tips to Memorize Chinese Characters

[@pramodkapali3541]

Why you haven't brought any lesson after lesson 39 .. It was being so helpful and the way you are teaching is so better.. I hope in coming days you will continue to bring lessons

[@EverydayChinese]

We will! We're grateful to all our viewers and subscribers for helping us go so far! For the past 3 years, our team, including Joyce, have been creating hundreds of Chinese video lessons on KZbin to help Chinese learners across world learn real Mandarin Chinese with ease. Actually, Joyce has been preparing the online Chinese course recently, which is one of our projects. Please have a look by visiting our online school here: www.everydaychinese.com Our team also need to survive and now we need to pay for 5 full-time academic supervisors/designers and other 5 team members like video editors, developers and English translators. We also plan to develop a Chinese learning app in the future. Creating Chinese learning content and lessons is really a huge project and a time consuming process. Hope all of you can understand us! Thanks!

[@farhankutub6564]

@@EverydayChinese the hardest part is remembering the tones of the characters if there's any other video on that it would be great.

[@EverydayChinese]

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[@yiminchinese]

0:12 do you need to learn characters 1:42 how Chinese characters were created 7:18 how many characters do you need 7:36 how to remember characters yes,Joyce laoshi is right, for you guys who are learning Chinese characters, enjoy the journey, don't push yourself too hard, it takes Chinese kids years to learn it too.😊

[@unicyclechinese3125]

喂，Yimin, your channel is great too!

[@yiminchinese]

@@unicyclechinese3125 thank you so much amigo. I appreciate it a lot, I checked your channel too, do you actually do all that paintings by yourself, it´s very impressive .

[@gabrielospina5171]

Hola Yimin☺ Que bueno verte por aquí.

[@yiminchinese]

@@gabrielospina5171 hi Gaby, yo tambien, abrazos 🤗🤗

[@unicyclechinese3125]

你好Joyce! I have been learning 中文 for more than two years now and 天天汉语 has been a great resource. I was never scared of 汉字 and tried to learn them from the start. This video makes it even easier to understand now! 感谢！

[@pasleighlaylay6502]

9:39 is the best advice. I make up stories or associate popular trends with characters while I'm learning them, even if the story is silly or inaccurate. For example, for Einstein's name, 爱因斯坦, I just remember this story: Einstein loved to learn (爱) in a big (think of 大) room by himself sometimes (因). Every week (think of 星期 ) he could hear (think of 听) his thoughts in that room (斯), and he rose with the sun (think of 日) every day to continue his studies (坦).

[@carolinepena5633]

Oohh that's so beautiful!! Haha you seem like a very creative person!!

[@pasleighlaylay6502]

@@carolinepena5633 Aww. Thank you! ^_^

[@FHIAofficial]

I'm a 100% beginner and so far, I have watched loads of 'learn to read and write Chinese' and none of them have helped but this video does! 谢谢

[@jksdunlap7870]

I JUST found this! I teach English and Reading to Chinese students online. I Love the way you teach! And this video has inspired me to keep working on Hanzi! thank you

[@whywho8887]

Thank you . You make it so much easier then other courses I tried. Wishing you all the best and what ever you do Have a Fantastic Day

[@EverydayChinese]

Thanks, you too!

[@havenfu9675]

哈哈哈哈哈最近在学韩语学到掉头发 就突发奇想来搜有没有中文教学 结果真的有！！Thank you guys a lot for spreading the Chinese studying videos with culture ! 你们太棒啦！

[@ekoi1995]

2:25 Pictograph Characters 2:59 Self-explanatory characters 3:29 associate compounds 4:09 pictophonetic characters

[@theanyasharma]

this video really helps me...but i don't afford your courses..so please i request you to continuously making this type of videos.... i learned a lot from your video..many characters...!! '''thank-you very much'''

[@aragamsubbarao5912]

you are excellent. I am studying your 30 lessons.I did not know this video. It is so helpful; Thank you.

[@federicosebastianacostaval6713]

this channel helped me a lot because in my university we must learn chinese in order to get the degree

[@alecbetancourt3296]

Definitely this lesson give me another perspective of how to learn and understand much better chinese grammar!. I would like to know more about the part that you talked about the colors of some characters to undestand which is the tone when you are reading them. Thank you so much for the information!. (: . Greetings from Mexico!

[@leonardodaviddiazneri8377]

Cuánto tiempo llevas estudiando Alec? Me gustaría estudiar el idioma pero ya llevo un rato con el Japonés y no sé si sea contra producente estudiar ambos al mismo tiempo más que nada por los kanji/hanzi.

[@alecbetancourt3296]

Leonardo Neri Llevo relativamente poco aprendiendo el idioma, cómo tal no lo he estudiado continuamente. Pero hay días que tomo algunas lecciones por mi cuenta!(: .Yo creo que quizas estudiar idiomas tan parecidos al principio sea confuso, pero si vas encontrando un sistema que te acomode para recordar cada idioma con sus respectivos caracteres no creo que haya problema!. Es muy interesante el idioma chino mandarín también!😊

[@joelzacha]

Hello Joyce!Happy to see you back,plz upload lesson 40 now,thanks.

[@shinjiri123]

thank you so much! It is really nice to watch this video!! I was a little timid to learn han zi right away but now I am more confident indeed!

[@antoan5495]

Thank you for your contribution to teaching Chinese on line , via your lessons gradually I am interested in learning Chinese for pleasure. It is hopeful to receive your donations in near future.

[@zarianne]

i’ve been learning chinese for 2 years and haven’t bothered to learn characters but i know i need to start soon and i just happened to see this video tysm i already know around 100 or so but i need to learn more lol

[@popbigode]

The awareness of phonetic radicals tip was really helpful. Thank you.

[@lourdesbela-o2151]

thanks so much for this very clear Chinese character recognition, it has an interesting introduction, very important to know the step by step procedure of Chinese character writing.

[@penniesfromheaven635]

This video really makes me want to study through your program. I signed up for an online university course and they kind of just skipped hanzi altogether. It was quite frustrating for me since that is the one thing I needed the most help with. If you don't have the right strategy or habits it is easy to fail to learn Chinese.

[@teekanpahrgrg7865]

Thanks for this useful video. Very clear to explain each lesson. Thanks again.

[@Crazy_Humorous]

I love this video so much! It's an excellent way to teach characters! thank you!

[@GuranPurin]

This does help in trying to make guesses while learning new characters, it's probably not many characters that you can learn this way, but it is a good starting point

[@62-anikamubasshira54]

Thanks for such a useful Hanzi video .. I got motivated from this video

[@garimabatra2658]

Wow... just amazing...I found the classification I was looking for...thanks tons.

[@mmdxdy14]

So the goal is to learn 1,000 characters. Let’s do this! 😬

[@vivientakacs5599]

If you put it into perspective, it's not that many actually. You can most likely easily say 1000 words in your mother tongue, and realize there are probably more that you use every day. Yes it seems more difficult because of the different writing system, but in my opinion as we start looking at it as not something as difficult, it will become easier to learn and remember.

[@mmdxdy14]

@@vivientakacs5599 I totally agree and characters build on each other like compound words - I’ll get there one day 😬😆

[@DavoodEsfahani-wm3vi]

Thanks teacher ,so great.

[@kaldentsering5004]

Thank you teacher is make me more easy to learn 😊😊🙏🙏

[@sergianecfn]

Great video: short and to the point! I find this channel's videos amazing to complement my studies! 😊 谢谢！

[@EverydayChinese]

Great to hear that! 加油，学好汉语！

[@meikim7208]

very very good👍 I watch this video everyday, very helpful. Thank you!

[@jessjess99]

This is so useful!! I am very convinced to sign up to the courses, I need to learn simplified Chinese. Although I find it difficult to have had some traditional Chinese knowledge, I feel these resources will help me a lot.

[@biancabeluga1597]

Ohhh woooow!!! This is sooooo helpfull!!! And so easy to remember and learn!!! Thank you soooo much for this video!! Please more videos like this!! I just started learning Chinese and I have to admit that it was difficult but I am not someone who gives up that easily especially after finding your fantastic channel!!! Thank you sooo much for your great work!!! Big greeting for you from Serbia. 😄🥰🥰😘😘😘❤️❤️👍👍👋👋

[@lilydewiraslie7759]

非常有用，谢谢您Joyce老师。

[@accessrajib]

Wonderful presentation !!

[@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes]

I teach Chinese language in a creative and funny way. Learning a completely different language is funnier and more thought-provoking. Learning Chinese can contribute to finding a good job. (China is the largest trading partner of more than120 countries.) Chinese characters still retain their pictographic origins. Knowing what the characters look like originally can help understand the meanings and remember them vividly. I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture and jokes. My native language is Chinese.

[@japanesereadingandwriting]

Thank you!

[@gregs4247]

Very good advice. When I first started learning Chinese, my friends advised me to learn Hanzi as well. But I was stubborn, I only wanted to converse in Chinese so I thought Hanzi was not important and too difficult. It was a huge mistake. After 1 year of learning, I still could not read anything other than 我 and 你。But part of the fun is reading and Chinese text is not written in Pinyin. Many words have the same Pinyin but different Hanzi behind them so as you learn more words, it becomes very confusing if you don't know the Hanzi behind the word. After l started learning to read Hanzi, I realized my learning progress started to improve faster in fact. Now, at least now read some simple short stories or articles which is very satisfying to me. Although I can type Hanzi on computers or smartphones in Pinyin, I still cannot write by hand. But I think this is good enough for me.

[@atrujillo9]

I think so. I think a good best practice is everytime you learn new words or phrases to learn the characters that go along with it. The great thing about keyboards is they have the pinyin to character function so you still have to be able to recognize the characters but you don't have to memorize the stroke order. Best of luck to you.

[@ahkhoenterprise5619]

Simply Amazing

[@TheGretaoto]

Joyceeeeeeeeeee, I think I never saw in other videos!!!!! :) Thank you for this new video!!

[@EverydayChinese]

She is back after she finished her online courses! 😊

[@suzuyahaise401]

This helped me so much. Thank you!

[@jacquelinebarahona4353]

Thank's a lot. It's really helpful to my process of learning your beautiful language 😍😘😍😘

[@rikki_hwang]

Hello! Thank you, so much! Can you say the name of books at 10:42 ? Btw, your videos are really helpful and give a lot of motivation :)

[@dezerter97]

Very useful video :) thank you

[@EverydayChinese]

You're welcome!

[@impexhubtradingcompany4245]

Thank you very much and I appreciate you.

[@nightbirdstudiosholisticwe1921]

This was so helpful!

[@rikheevans991]

Thanks you this was really helpful

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Thank you very much.👍❤

[@sneakpeek9790]

Million and billions of ❤thanks

[@fitriariani11]

Thank you for sharing ❤

[@TinTeddyVideos]

Thank you, that was really interesting and useful

[@aida_ogannisyan]

Thank you very much!)

[@lamabuddha496]

您的课鼓励我学汉字。

[@victorberti4277]

Thanks a lot for the video!! I really liked it! Just one question: how do I know which component from the character is the phonetic part and which one is the "meaning" part?? I always get confused about this.

[@easyChinese]

学习中文的方法很多，但是最关键的还是坚持！There are many ways to learn Chinese, but the most important thing is to persist. Making full use of mobile apps to learn foreign languages is the difference between the modern world and the past.

[@gcampos3271]

I have the custom that when learning words or phrases I write hàn zì, under them pīnyīn, later, the translation. And finally I read them.

[@ahmetkara9032]

Hello. I am from Turkey. 我是老市和我爱汉语Your videos are very helpful and I have been learning Chinese with your help here on KZbin. I really love learning Chinese because I love writing the characters. I started with Japanese then turned to Chinese seeing that the kanji is originally Chinese. I have one request. Could you please make more videos on how to write 汉子? Thanks for making videos to help people grow around the world.

[@aren1467]

how is your chinese now? im also turkish, learning chinese and on hsk 2. hanzi definitely makes me struggle but your comment made me remember im not alone in this! much love, trabzondan :)

[@ahmetkara9032]

@@aren1467 merhaba teşekkür ederim mesajın için. Hala devam ediyorum öğrenmeye. Yazılı olarak anlıyorum ama konuşma konusunda iyi değilim. 4. Seviyeden öğrenmeye başladım. Japonca da öğreniyorum yazmasını seviyorum. Bir de farklı bir kültür olması ilgimi çekiyor. Devam et sakın bırakma zamanla daha iyi olacaktır.

[@aren1467]

@@ahmetkara9032 4. seviye cok yuksek!! gercekten imrendim cok iyisin! :) devam etmeyi kesinlikle dusunuyorum arti bir de hangul yazmayi ogreniyorum, destegin icin tesekkur ederim cok mutlu oldum :)) yazma konusunda da 😔 neredeyse hic iyi degilim ama konusmada ortalamanin uzerindeyim! o yuzden pes etmiyorum!! umarim sen de istedigin yere gelebilirsin :)

[@ahmetkara9032]

@@aren1467 rica ederim ben de sevindim benim gibi birileri olduğu için Türkiye’de … lütfen devam bir süre kolaylaşmaya başlar. Karakter yazma alıştırmaları yap… Çince ve Japonca da kitap okumak istiyorum şimdilik bunlara yoğunlaşmak istiyorum

[@ibnucawilcawil8115]

Thank u very much for your effort.

[@EverydayChinese]

Our pleasure! Keep on learning Chinese.

[@razorkevz8326]

very informative. thanks

[@dougfriendly7676]

Does anyone know where I could send a picture of Chinese characters on the lid of a tin can that I own in order to have them translated? I am curious about what it was that was in the can.

[@MouradHarkat]

新年快乐

[@umargul5644]

Great 👍

[@flat-earther]

Interesting thanks

[@snlatifahaha]

Nice info, thanks

[@EverydayChinese]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lizajardeleza]

Where do I enroll if I want to learn how to read chinese characters? Is it possible to send a link? Thank you

[@qiqi408]

how do you know the difference between xing sheng zi and hui yi zi. like how do you that you must say the second character or its a associate characters?

[@DAKSPALM]

excellent

[@AyleTourguide-j3x]

thanks

[@attawwaabuun3171]

Help me a lot 🕶

[@129Neytiri129]

I would say that one should learn to recognize and type the characters, but it is not neccessary to learn to write them. I see a lot of videos where people have pretty notebooks filled with characters, and if that is something you would find fun or interesting to do, sure, go ahead, but in this digital age, typing is the skill that you actually need. no need to worry about the stroke order and such. Install a chinese keyboard which lets you input pinyin and offers you characters. of course, when you are learning words you still need to learn the hanzi too, not only the pinyin, in order to be able to read texts and choose the correct characters when typing.

[@DataDost]

Nice video

[@haru93]

工 this word's pinyin is gong, then why the pinyin of 江 is jiang? Thank you very much for uploading these videos, they're very helpful!

[@大清蛙]

the ancient pronounce is “gang”

[@mohammadabuamara2407]

I teach Chinese Characters to Arabs. I think Chinese language teachers should emphasize learning all Chinese Radicals for complete beginners. A learner should start slowly learning the meaning of each radical, learn its pronunciation and how it's written. A learner should learn all the 214 radicals with their strokes. When reaching radicals with 8 strokes, students then can then start learning words; combined radicals that form words, verbs, adjectives, nouns... etc.

[@therealynch1704]

How can someone join the Wechat group?

[@rikki_hwang]

I actually started learning Chinese cuz of characters))

[@EverydayChinese]

It's very important to learn to recognize and write Chinese characters. What's more, you cannot advance your Chinese to a higher level if you don't know any Chinese characters. 加油！

[@jamesbladerunner2735]

Thankx

[@user-jingliu456.]

In china one way is simplified way of writing chinese characters, and one is traditional. The pinyin is same but the letters are different

[@snachun7833]

老师好

[@Chiibee143]

My professor said I was pretty unique in our class because all the other students would rely heavily on Pinyin and have no idea what to do if the test was in 汉字，but I was the complete opposite. The characters always made so much more sense to me! How would people know what "jiao" they are talking about when if reading the character makes it so obvious?! ... Then again, my biggest issue now is listening comprehension, so I guess that didn't help in the long run! 😅

[@pasleighlaylay6502]

对！I agree! Pinyin is helpful, but I cannot imagine just reading pinyin to understand Chinese. 不好。I need the 汉字 too 哈哈·.

[@assamnewwaz2131]

Good

[@大清蛙]

in fact ，traditional Chinese character easy to learn

[@WangYi9]

我 is the first character I learnt , it appeared so many times that I learnt even before I realized it 😂

[@user-jingliu456.]

老师我想说，在中国有些人喜欢写传统字符，有些人用简单的汉字，为什么会这样. It's a little difficult to read traditional characters.how can we memorize them?

[@EverydayChinese]

现在，中国大陆普遍使用简体字，港台地区使用的是繁体字。

[@user-jingliu456.]

@@EverydayChinese 哦，那就好

[@tabularasa0606]

When I realized 猫 looks like a cat and 狗 looks like a dog, everything fell into place.

[@お節介じい-t4g]

中国的汉字基本上一个字有一个拼音｡日本的汉字是一个字有好几个读音。所以日本的汉字学起来比较麻烦。It's difficult to learn Japanese Kanji for foreigners.

[@oceane8836]

My chinese teacher (I have been studying Chinese for 2 years now) only taught us 汉子 and not the pinyin at all so no I struggle with the pinyin ahah

[@againstjebelallawz]

The 跘 character is very rare.

[@Perrydog101]

I've only dabbled with Mandarin for two years. Wanted to look at German and thought , No, Chinese Characters!. Oy, what a mountain to climb, let's begin.

[@ahtshamulhaq9055]

Wait i don't understand chinese characters can anybody explain me in more details plz

[@igorsmerdov6804]

One very important moment: almost all of the characters you see in your textbooks and manuals ARE ABSENT IN THE TEXTS/BILLBOARDS/SLOGANS/FORMS/BOOKS you deal with in China. So basically you are still illiterate after chewing all these textbooks and simple characters. Yes, a character for "to rest" is more or less guessable. The teachers never say that the guessable characters comprise just a tiny percentage, not even 20-30 % of characters ( that would have been of help). Try guessing something more important, e.g. " to remember" let alone something like GDP or MRI. So, the conclusion - you have to memorize almost all of them, desirably in the context.

[@mikedaniels3009]

Good luck to those who think they can cheat their way thru chinese and stay illiterate. Dissociating the thorough in depth knowledge of radicals & characters is like wanting to pilot an Airbus 380 knowing only how to fasten your passenger seat belt.

[@arantzainongoa6087]

Muy bueno el vídeo. Lo que a mí me sirve para aprenderme los caracteres es trabajar mucho con los radicales, cuando tengo una palabra que no hay manera de que se me quede dentro de mi cabeza voy al diccionario a buscar su significado disgregándolo en sus radicales, así me resulta más lógico, casi siempre, el significado y lo aprendo, si aún así no lo logro, está el viejo truco de coger un montón de hojas en blanco y escribir ese carácter una y mil veces hasta que salga instantáneo. Muchas gracias por vuestra ayuda.

[@anonymelv9881]

I wonder if some Chinese people are able to speak a few of the Chinese idioms that exist...And how many ?

[@learnindonesianwithchandra3637]

I wan to speak, so I need Piyin

[@intannursyafiqah211]

This is soooooo hard 😭😭

[@Sk-lx9xf]

5/9/22

[@Chantwizzle]

It's funny how upset new learners get. But remember, you're learning the language at the same time. People born in China, or who speak Chinese as a second language, have the advantage of already knowing the words and sounds. And Chinese school kids have years of practice. Most learners get upset when they can't remember all the Hanzi in a few months or even a year. I aim for 10 a day and I've stopped focusing on writing, and more on typing.

[@nesrinedavidsonn2778]

我喜欢汉子，阿尔及利亚人

[@半夜太阳]

我是阿尔及利亚人，我喜欢汉字。

[@nwjwrbrahma3422]

Hmmmm goood.......

[@shayrow9480]

But, why is 你 not pronounced as 尔

[@QuizmasterLaw]

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