Huni Ma Lan Tu Teach Baby Reading: Smart Baby Volume

Author: Su Zhen
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Kids, do you know how many Chinese characters there are? There are over 80,000 Chinese characters in total, and about 3,000 to 4,000 are commonly used. How can you remember so many characters? In fact, Chinese characters are very easy to remember because they are a very distinctive type of writing. Each Chinese character has its own "appearance," just like people. Parents, uncles, aunts, teachers, and kids all have their own appearances, so we rarely mistake Uncle Zhang for Uncle Li or call Teacher Wang "Teacher Zhao." As long as we remember their appearances, we won't mix them up. Learning characters is the same way. Once we remember the "appearance" of a character, it becomes much easier to remember it. How did the "appearances" of Chinese characters come about? Long ago, when Chinese characters didn't exist yet, but some things needed to be recorded, what could be done? Some clever people drew the shapes of things to represent them, making it much easier. Gradually, these drawings evolved into the earliest Chinese characters—pictographs. Why are they called pictographs? Because pictographs were created based on the external forms of things. Moreover, the "appearance" features of pictographs are very distinct, for example, the character "" (yuè) was created based on the shape of the moon. Don't you think that's interesting? In fact, there are many more characters like this, and this is just one magical aspect of Chinese characters. Chinese also has many other secrets. If you want to learn about these secrets, then study more Chinese characters.