Thursday, September 15, 2011

Writing Lesson 1: 吃

How to write  chī (to eat) ?

If you remember the post on what chinese words are composed of, you will recall that 吃 is made up of the radical 口 and 3 other strokes.


Writing is pretty easy as long as you follow the rules, top to bottom, left to right. 吃 is written with 6 strokes.

The following diagram breaks each stroke down to its individual parts.


If you're wondering, each stroke (radical) has a name and when kids learn to write, they are taught the name of the stroke, so that they can "spell" the word. Like this:

shù,  héng zé, héng 
丿 piě 

héng 
héng zé wān gōu

This is as close as you get to "spelling" a Chinese word!

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