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Chinese Language: Joyce & Smile

The document provides an overview of the Chinese language including: - It discusses the basic information about Chinese including that characters are ideograms reflecting meaning and the language has four intonations. - It outlines the pinyin romanization system including vowels and consonants. - It explains the origins and formation of Chinese characters including pictograms, ideograms, and phono-semantic compounds. - It provides some simple Chinese phrases for greetings and introductions.

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Chinese Language: Joyce & Smile

The document provides an overview of the Chinese language including: - It discusses the basic information about Chinese including that characters are ideograms reflecting meaning and the language has four intonations. - It outlines the pinyin romanization system including vowels and consonants. - It explains the origins and formation of Chinese characters including pictograms, ideograms, and phono-semantic compounds. - It provides some simple Chinese phrases for greetings and introductions.

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CHINESE LANGUAGE

Joyce & Smile

AGENDA
Basic Information of Chinese Language

Pin

Yin

Chinese Characters

Simple Chinese phrases

BASIC INFORMATION OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

Chinese characters is one of oldest languages in the world. Its shape is square. What it looks like reflect what it mean. Chinese language sounds beautiful

BASIC INFORMATION OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

Chinese have four intonation. These four intonation make our language different than the other languages.

BASIC INFORMATION OF CHINESE LANGUAGE

The Art of Chinese language

PIN YIN(ALPHABET)

Vowel (24):

a o e i u i ei ui o ou iu ie e er n en in un n ng eng ying ong

CONSONANT23
b

p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r (cacuminal) z c s y w

LETS PRACTICE
wo nai ni hen hao

ji

zu

kao

ku

ge

zou

le

chu

cao

de

bai

SPECIAL 16
zhi chi shi ri yi wu yu ye yin yun ying

zi ci si yue yuan

FOUR INTONATION

o e i u

The first one: eg. pn yn shng The second one: / eg. nn y ln The third one: eg. w ho k The forth one: \ eg. tu gu ko

ho = h + ao +

CHINESE CHARACTERS

Origin: Oracle bone script

OLD LEGEND CANG JIE

FORMATION OF CHARACTERS
Chinese character classification
Category Percentage of characters (approximation) 82% 13% 4%

Phono-semantic compounds
Ideogrammic compounds Pictograms

Ideograms
Transformed cognates Rebus

Few (less than 1%)


Few Few

IDEOGRAMS

up

down

concave

convex

root

branch

PICTOGRAMS

sun

moon

bird

fish

dear

vehicle

bull

bull

goat

bamboo

fruit eyebrow tongue

tail

IDEOGRAMMIC COMPOUNDS

morning

evening

PHONO-SEMANTIC COMPOUNDS

These characters are composed of two parts: one of a limited set of characters called 'radicals', which are often graphically simplified and which suggests the general meaning of the character, and an existing character pronounced approximately as the new target word.

h "river" h "lake" li "stream" chng "flush"

SIMPLE CHINESE PHRASES


w I n you w i n I love you w jio My name is n ho Hello xi xie Thank you zi jin Good bye

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