Learning Chinese

文 (wén) is a complementary Chinese concept to 武 (wǔ), which refers to military affairs and martial arts.

The Chinese character 白 (bái) stands for the colour white. It also refers to being pure, clean, unblemished, ...

The Chinese character 元 (yuán) stands for the beginning or the origin, and the quality of being original, ...

The Chinese character for truth, 眞 (zhēn), depicts an immortal transforming and ascending to heaven. An alternative form ...

The character for power depicts a person reaching down and using arm strength to pick up an object, ...

The Chinese character for saint or sage is composed of three characters that together depict a person with ...

The Chinese character 水 (shuǐ) refers to water, a liquid, or a fluid. It can also refer to ...

The Chinese character 山 (shān) refers to a mountain, mountain range, or hill. It is a pictograph that ...

The Chinese character 仙 (xiān) refers to an immortal, a fairy, or a celestial or supernatural being. It ...

The Chinese character for child depicts a baby, with the head at the top, the arms outstretched, and ...

The Chinese character for old also refers to being venerable, skilled, expert, or experienced.

The Chinese character for flute refers to the Chinese side-blown (transverse) flute, or dizi, which is held horizontally ...

The Chinese character 親 (qīn) as a noun refers to a parent, relative, or blood relation. As an ...

The Chinese character 像 (xiàng) refers to a figure or an image. It also carries the meaning of ...

The Chinese character for “military” conveys the qualities of being warlike or fierce, as well as being brave, ...

The Chinese character Dao expresses the concept of achieving spiritual enlightenment through walking the right path.

The two components of the Chinese character for agriculture together convey the idea of a farmer using a ...

Buddha means ‘an enlightened being,’ one who has become enlightened through cultivating (improving) one’s character and attained immense ...

There is a popular saying that anyone who does not know how to write poetry will be able ...

The character is a pictogram that depicts a tiger standing on its hind legs.

The original meaning of 畫 relates to demarcating land and defining property boundaries, one of the earliest activities ...

The two components of the Chinese character for book conveys the idea of writing down what is spoken, ...

The Chinese character that refers to the gallbladder also stands for the concept of bravery and courage in ...

The Chinese character for righteousness contains broad inner meaning, including moral values such as justice, honesty, loyalty, and ...

智 (zhì) is the Chinese character for wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge.

The character 武 (wǔ) was developed from Oracle bone script and is a combination character of which all ...

According to the Chinese theory of yin and yang, yin represents the female /negative energy and yang represents ...