The most significant features of Chinese characters

In our last post we talked about the overall history of Chinese characters but today we have the chance to explore deeper into their special features. Help kids learn Chinese characters in a traditional format or in the simplified format with less strokes and more of a focus on the radicals. We won’t talk about Pinyin since this is just a Romanization of Chinese characters.

 Some places in China still use traditional characters but overall most places use simplified Chinese as it’s easier to write. In traditional art forms like calligraphy many masters might still use traditional characters.

Different strokes that are made to create a character have different names and rules on the order they should be placed. Because of this each character has a specific way it should be written, a stroke out of place could change it’s meaning.

Each character also has something called a ‘radical’, we can call these the key ‘stroke’ of characters. Characters with similar qualities will have the same radical.