Chinese Characters EXPLAINED

✅ Learn 150 languages with quality native-speaking teachers on italki🎉. Buy $10 get $5 for free for your first lesson using my code AB5: Web: App: 👩🏻‍🏫 Learn Chinese with Ming: ✍️ SYNOPSIS: Chinese Characters are not just random strokes, but are created in a (somewhat) systematic way. Learn about the different constructions of Chinese characters and the pattern that 80% of Chinese characters all follow! 📍TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 || Misconceptions about Hanzi 1:07 || What is Liushu? (六书) 1:44 || 4 Ways Characters are Created 3:47 || italki 5:15 || 2 Ways Characters are Used 6:55 || How 80% of Characters are Constructed 8:55 || Problems 10:25 || Advantages ✧Support my channel for FREE by using my affiliate links✧ 🟠 Temu: ⚪ Amazon: ✧✧Products I USE and ❤️(referrals/affiliate)✧✧ 📕 Favorite Chinese App: 10% off with code: ABCHINESE 📺 Learn Chinese w/ REAL Media: 20% off with code: ABCHINESE 💳Discover Credit Card: 🛡️SurfShark VPN: 📱Tello (cheap phone plan): 📈Webull (invest in stocks): 📚 REFERENCES: Types of Characters: Ancient dictionary (说文解字): Ancient weapon (我): 我/13882224?fr=aladdin 六书 (Chinese sources): ⚠️ NOTES: 1) All historical examples of Hanzi writing are taken from this site: 2) Mutually explanatory characters are sometimes called “transfer characters“. 3) Technically I should have said “loaned character“ [9:46] 4) Most elements are metals, but you can see that all the gases are basically composites of the “air“ character (气) and a phonetic component. [10:50] 💖SUPPORT MY WORK! ✈ ✧FOLLOW ME!✧ 📸 Instagram ✈ 🔵 Facebook ✈ 🎵 TikTok ✈ 🎮 Discord ✈ 🎹 MUSIC from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): License code: ZIE2ESVOOIQJCWYK 🖼️ IMAGES: Image by brgfx on Freepik: #query=soju bottle clip art&position=4&from_view=search&track=ais #query=spider clip art&position=19&from_view=search&track=ais #query=lizard clip art&position=2&from_view=search&track=ais Image by starline on Freepik: Image by Freepik: #&position=4&from_view=collections #&position=0&from_view=collections #&position=5&from_view=collections Image by upklyak on Freepik: #query=forest in winter illustration&position=18&from_view=search&track=ais **Fan mail ✈ DM me on Instagram or Tiktok