Category Archives: Chinese Characters

Evolution Of Chinese Characters Chinese characters arose from pictures. We will want to learn to recognize the pictures within the pictographs. How shall we start? Many of the modern Chinese characters have a very long history, and they have changed greatly over time. There have been a series of well-defined, great shifts in writing style […]

Window to an Ancient Culture To begin our exploration of Chinese characters, it is useful to recognize that Chinese characters present a window to the culture of ancient China. It is also true that English words present a window to the ancient culture in which English arose. Most students of English, including children in English-speaking […]

Chinese Characters – Introduction This page introduces my section about Chinese characters… Continue reading