A glimpse of my desk. I am cramming Chinese into my head, absolutely cramming. I more or less confidently recognise over 600 characters from Heisig, which well-thumbed volumes you don’t see in this pile here because they are in constant use. I am the top of my league in Duolingo and set to take first…
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A thick mist rises over the lake.
Hi everyone! Today’s character is 湖 hú, meaning lake. If you follow Heisig, it is character 156. Those three dots on the left hand side are three drops of water. It is the water radical, 水 shuǐ, in compressed or abbreviated form 氵 I have two versions of today’s sentence. The first is from Pleco, is longer and…
The whole thing was a nightmare.
Character of the day is rú. If you use Heisig, it is character 104. It has a few meanings but the one we are concerned with today is the verb “be like” or “be similar to”. Here is today’s sentence. It’s interesting to note that 一切 means ‘all’, ‘everything’ or, in this case, ‘the whole thing’. We…
This gentleman will pay for everything.
I’m constantly looking for ways to refresh and consolidate my knowledge of the Chinese characters I’ve learned from Heisig. I nominally know 250 but I am prone to forgetting them if I don’t study and I need to connect them to other aspects of Mandarin, so from now on I’m having character of the day…
The Hanyu You Want 