Learn Chinese : traditional characters of lesson 4.

Note: when a translation of a character is in brackets, this means that this character cannot be used alone. This does not mean that it has no meaning, just as the roots of words in our Western languages.


Please choose the character stroke order style:


guó : (country)

Stroke order:

Components: border, enclo­sure, mouth, halberd.
hàn : (Chinese)

Stroke order:

Components: water, 廿 twenty, mouth, man.
: (language)

Stroke order:

Components: speech, five, mouth.

For the next character, , the component "eight" can be written either or inverted .

shuō : to speak

Stroke order:

Components: speech; eight inverted; mouth; son.
xiě : to write

Stroke order:

Components: roof, mortar, wrap, fire.
huì : to know (how to) / can

Stroke order:

Components: human, sun. The part between those two components is not listed as component.
ér : (son) / suffix

Stroke order:

Components: mortar, son.
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