Chinese Surnames (1 - 25): "Top Chinese Surnames (range: 1 - 25)
Click on any Chinese character to see how to draw it."
the way a Chinese dictionary is organised cannot be alphabetical, because they do not use our Latin alphabet.
A friend tells me this is the best English to Chinese dictionary on line
but a Chinese to English dictionary has to be approached in a different way.
Chinese writing - which has at least 201 different pronunciatins, is taught stroke by stroke, so children learn any character by making brush stroke 1 in a particular direction then 2 . . 3 . .
If you click Wang so a nice little animation shows top across -- middle across -- TOP TO BOTTOM -- BOTTOM ACROSS
so in a Chinese dictionary it would be listed amongst the four stroke characters.
Click on any Chinese character to see how to draw it."
the way a Chinese dictionary is organised cannot be alphabetical, because they do not use our Latin alphabet.
A friend tells me this is the best English to Chinese dictionary on line
but a Chinese to English dictionary has to be approached in a different way.
Chinese writing - which has at least 201 different pronunciatins, is taught stroke by stroke, so children learn any character by making brush stroke 1 in a particular direction then 2 . . 3 . .
If you click Wang so a nice little animation shows top across -- middle across -- TOP TO BOTTOM -- BOTTOM ACROSS
so in a Chinese dictionary it would be listed amongst the four stroke characters.
posted by Hugh W at 10:17 am
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