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Today’s Objectives

Today’s Objectives. To learn history of Chinese characters To learn the types of characters Begin to understand character stroke order Implement writing rules and begin writing Learn Days of the week, months, time phrases and questions. Money and How much is this?. 汉 字. Han Zi.

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Today’s Objectives

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  1. Today’s Objectives • To learn history of Chinese characters • To learn the types of characters • Begin to understand character stroke order • Implement writing rules and begin writing • Learn Days of the week, months, time phrases and questions. • Money and How much is this?

  2. 汉 字 Han Zi

  3. Writing Chinese Characters • Many believe writing was invented in China during the 2nd millennium BC and it was not introduced by other peoples. • Characters were first found 1500-950 BC (Shang Dynasty) on bones and shells.

  4. 汉字 • Each character represents a syllable of spoken Chinese and also has a meaning. • Many characters are combinations of more than one character. • The largest Chinese dictionaries contain 56,000 characters. • If you learn 50,000 you can read a newspaper!

  5. Just Jokin’ with ya! • If one is able to read 3,000 characters they can read a newspaper. • 6,ooo and one will be able to read ancient Chinese literature and Classical Chinese.

  6. Types of Chinese characters • Pictures • Orginally pictures of things, but over the past 5,000 years they have become more simple and stylish.

  7. Symbols • The character is a picture of an idea. Some more obvious than others.

  8. Sound-loans • Chinese has 1,700possible syllables. English has over 8,000. Because of this, Chinese has many homophones. • Some characters loan their sound to another word, so they sound the same but have different meanings (the definition of a homophone). You can find the character who loans his sound in other characters and determine how to say the character.

  9. Chinese Tongue Twister • Chinese Linguist Zhao Yuan Ren took this twister to the extreme. • When others were advocating switching to phonetic script he wrote this poem, to show how rediculous it would be. • This poem only uses the word shi. Reading it in its pinyin form it is nearly impossible to understand.

  10. Now this makes sense, doesn’t it? • 施氏食獅史 石室詩士施氏, 嗜獅,誓食十獅.氏時時適市視獅. 十時,適十獅適市.是時，適施氏適是市.氏視是十獅,恃矢勢,使是十獅逝世.氏拾是十獅屍, 適石室.石室濕， 氏使侍拭石室.石室拭，氏始試食十獅屍.食時, 始識十獅屍, 實十石獅屍.試釋是事.

  11. Sound-meaning compounds • These characters make up about 90%of all Chinese characters and have 2 parts. The first part gives you a hint at the meaning the other a hint to the sound, even though the sound may not be identical. • 包=bao1 to wrap or hold 鲍=bao4 1st is yu 2nd is bao=salty fish。First suggests meaning 2nd suggests sound.

  12. Meaning-meaning compounds • Two characters are put together to give meaning to the new character they create. • 女=woman 子=child 好=good

  13. Reclarified compounds • Sometimes two words have the same character. Ancient scribes added to characters so that they could be told apart. • Have a lookie here. Both of these characters are pronounced ting2 but have a slight difference in meaning. 廷=king’s court +广=庭=court in ordinary person’s front yard

  14. ConsiderThis… • There are 13 different dialects of Chinese. • While these people cannot speak to one another, they all can communicate by writing. • If you study hard, young one’s, you will be able to communicate by script in 13 different languages! • To switch to the pinyin system would “DESTROY” this awesome ability.

  15. So, how do you write these babies? • Chinese characters are written with the following twelve basic strokes:

  16. AndnowfortheRules

  17. A fewmorethingstoremember. • All characters must be uniform in size • Goodbad • 他非常俄他非常冷 • There are no spaces between characters.

  18. Start with the basics-NUMBERS • Yi1= 一1er2= 二2 • San3= 三3 si4= 四4 • Wu3 =五5liu4=六 6

  19. NUMBERS • Qi1=七7ba1=八8 • Jiu3= 九9shi2=十10 Bai3=百100 ling2=零0

  20. Numbers • 十一 十二 十三 • 二十四 三十五 四十六 • 五十七 六十八 七十九 • 八十 九十 一百

  21. Days of the week 星期 • Xing1 Qi1…星期=week +number • Monday= xing qi yiTuesday= xing qi er • 星期一星期二 • Wednesday= xing qi san星期三 • Thursday= xing qi si 星期四 • Friday= xing qi wuSaturday= xing qi liu • 星期五星期六 Sunday= xing qi tian1星期天天=day

  22. Months of the Year月= YuE4 = month • January=yi yue一月February=er yue二月 • March=sanyue 三月April=si yue四月 • May=wu yue 五月June=liuyue六月 • July=qiyue七月August=bayue八月 • September=jiuyue九月 • October=shi yue十月 • November=shi yi yue十一月 • December=shi er yue十二月

  23. Nouns relating to time • Today= jin1tian1今天 • Tomorrow= ming2tian1 明天 • Yesterday= zuo2tian1昨天 • Next week= xia4 ge xing1 qi1 下个星期 • Last week= shang4 ge xing1 qi1 上个星期 • Next month= xia4 ge yue4 下个月 • Last month= shang4 ge yue4 上个月 • Now= xian4 zai4 现在

  24. Questions regarding time • 今天是星期几？Jin1 tian1 shi4 xing1 qi1 ji3? • 明天是星期几？Ming2 tian1 shi4 xing1 qi1 ji 3? • 昨天是星期几？Zuo2 tian1 shi4 xing1 qi1 ji3? • 今天是几号？Jin1 tian1 shi4 ji3 hao4? • 明天是几号？Ming2 tian1 shi4 ji3 hao4? • 昨天是几号？Zuo2 tian1 shi4 ji3 hao4? • 现在是几月？Xian4 zai4 shi4 ji3 yue4?

  25. Questions in English • What day is today? • What day is tomorrow? • What day was yesterday? • What is today’s date? • What is tomorrow’s date? • What was yesterday’s date? • What month is it now?

  26. What time is it? • Ji2 dian3 le?几点了？ It’s 8:25 Xian4 zai4 ba1 dian3 er2 shi2 wu3 现在八点二十五 点=o’clock分=minute Now you answer 10:45 2:173:56 9:0011:22 6:05

  27. How much is it? • 多少钱？Duo1Shao Qian2 • 1.50 元=dollars=yuan • 一元五角 • Yi1 Yuan2 Wu3 Jiao3 • 十六元 二十三元 五十七元 一百元 • 3.70 4.30 12.60

  28. Work for Today • On dry erase boards practice writing your numbers. • On a piece of construction paper you will let the world see your calligraphy skills. • Make it beautiful or ugly, but make it yours!! Get your homework Handout from Luo laoshi.

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