You need to learn Chinese quickly for your new job — what should you do? Where do you start? Your friends recommend a few places to learn basic Chinese. Unfortunately, that won’t be enough. No doubt learning basic Chinese will help you improve your general communication, but not for a business environment. In other words, …
Welcome back to the Pandanese blog series on radicals! This series is to help our readers develop their Chinese language skills by getting familiar with the most commonly used Chinese radicals. Learning radicals can help you accelerate your vocabulary learning and expand your Hanzi knowledge in no time. In this article, we’ll introduce to you …
The Sickness Radical 疒: Overview, Mnemonics, and Vocabulary Read More »
Welcome back to our weekly radical series! In today’s article, we introduce you to the father radical 父 in Chinese, its stroke orders, and how you can memorize it with our mnemonics flashcard example. What is the father radical? In Chinese, the radical for father is pronounced as “fù” and written as 父. This radical …
The Father Radical 父: Overview, Mnemonics and Vocabulary Read More »
Welcome to our Pandanese radical series! For those who are out of the loop, Chinese radicals are very important and useful for every Chinese learner. It’s because Chinese radicals often give you a hint of what the character means or how it sounds. In today’s article, we’ll introduce you to the insect radical, what it …
The Insect Radical 虫: Overview, Mnemonics and Vocabulary Read More »
One of the most effective ways to master Chinese is learning and understanding radicals. This is common advice that almost all newbie Chinese-language learners hear when they start out on their Mandarin journey. Why is that? This is because radicals appear in every Chinese character, often giving you a hint of what the character means …
The Foot Radical 足: Overview, Mnemonics and Vocabulary Read More »
