Alphabet in Chinese| HSK Chinese Characters | Mandarin Chinese Language
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- Chinese language is basically composed of a lot of syllables and sounds. There is one
character to write every sound. These characters are called wen2 zi4 in Chinese language.
Like wen2 is a character and zi4 is another character. In the same ways, You must have heard ni3 hao3.
ni3 is one sound having a unique character. It means you. ni3 means you
and hao3 is a sound also having a unique chinese characters for it. It means good.
So, ni3 hao3 means you good, Are you good, Hello!
And you would be amazed to know how easy it is to memorize Hanzi Chinese characters. Because these
characters are pretty much similar to their meaning and shape of the object they mean.
For example, ren2 is used for man in Chinese language, and 2 strokes are drawn to write it in
such a way as a walking man. Friends! traditional chinese was so difficult as to write ren2,
one had to draw full shape of a man. Now, the language has become very easy. And every sound
and object has simple characters, which are very easy to memorize.
In the same ways, kou3 word is used for mouth in Chinese language. And to write that a character
is used that shows an open mouth. This is called as simplified Chinese which is normally written
and understood these days.
Similarly shan1 is used for mountain in Mandarin Chinese and three big and small separate hilltops are drawn
to write its character. And men2 is used for door in Chinese language and its character is drawn
as if it were a half open door.
Let us discuss one more example of alphabet in chinese,. Shang4 and xia4 are the two words used for up or above and
down or below respectively. Shang4 character seems like something is placed upon the floor
and xia4 character is drawn such as something is hanging from the ceiling.
Learning how to write chinese is directly related to repeatedly write and practice these characters.
For speaking, listening and understanding Chinese, we need to understand a language in between English and
Chinese. The pinyin language. This language helps in correctly speaking and understanding Chinese
characters.
Friends! For every single chinese character there is a unique sound and a unique pinyin word
is linked with every chinese sound. And every pinyin word has three parts in it. Initial,
Final and tone.
If we use one initial with a final and pronounce it with some specific tone, it would be one
pinyin word i.e. one sound or one character.
Tone represents the ups and downs of sound. We can speak fast, slow, loud or faint and the tone
changes. When the tone changes, sound changes, the associated character changes and so does the
meaning.
Pinyin initials and finals are very similar to consonants and vowels in English with some differences.
We can have more than one consonants in an English word while in one Pinyin syllable there can only
be one initial character.
We have a set of 21 initials. Any one of them can be used in a pinyin syllable. Some pinyin syllables
don't even have an initial in them. Whole pinyin syllable has only final with some tone. In such cases
if the final starts with i, u or ü then i and ü is replaced by or is used with y as an initial
and w replaces u as an initial to write it's pinyin while there is no difference in their pronunciation,
while syllables starting from a, o and e can be written without any initial.
Friends! an initial is composed of only one and sometimes two characters, while a final may consist of
2, 3 or 4 characters as well. There are total 35 finals. Among them, 6 finals are single character finals
i.e. a, o, e, i, u and ü.
If we have a look at all 23 initials and 35 finals, we can see that all the characters look similar to
those in English except ü. But when spoken, mostly they are different from their English counterparts.
It is very important to pronounce tones correctly, otherwise meanings would change and the listener
would not fathom what we say.
When combining intials and finals, first thing to note down is initials are written before finals
Secondly, not every final can be used with any intial to make a syllable. A set of rules is to be
followed while using a final with an initial. We can consult The Initial Final Chart to memorize
their compatibility.
Initials are in rows and finals in columns of this chart. Here you can see that in the first row
there is no initial and the finals can
be used independently without an initial. Whereas i and ü are replaced by y and u is replaced by
w.
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th rows of this chart are for b, p, m and f. u and ü are not used with these initials usually.
Similarly we cannot use finals starting with i and ü with other 10 initials namely g, k, h, z, c, s, zh,
ch, sh and r. And j, q and x are specific for finals starting with i and ü. Later we shall discuss
initials and finals pronunciation in detail.
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How much it take to do hsk4 starting from hsk1
If I don't know anything about Chinese and I start learning Chinese today. Even then HSK4 can be done within one year. Depends on how much time you actively participate in this.