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The Structure of 日(sun,day)and 月(moon,month)
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In the last three units, we have learnt quite a lot of Chinese vocabularies in Romanization. The foundation work of the Chinese characters while English words do not have the same characteristic because every English word merely carries the sound of the word. However, before you can really read Chinese, it is necessary for you to learn the structure of Chinese character in order to know the meaning. Chinese characters are believed to have originated 6000 years ago. In the beginning, the characters were pictographs It is easy for us to learn words of objects at first. Let us look at the Chinese character 日. It is developed from the old The character 月 is also developed from the ancient character "" which looks like the image of the moon. People drew the picture of the sun to indicate it. After thousands of years, the pictures were changed to symbols for There are always more than one meaning in one word. For the character 日, besides the original meaning “sun”, it When we put 日 and 月 together, a new character 明 with a new meaning based on the nature of the original characters |
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