It is believed that Chinese is one of the most complex languages. The incomprehensible swirls and the strange logic of the formation of proposals are confused by anyone who decided to master the language of the manner. But with the help of a creative approach, any problems can be solved, including the problems of learning Chinese.
In the Publishing House, the book "Chineasy every day" is published, which teaches Chinese through colorful illustration. This method teaches to memorize hieroglyphs by associations and quickly orient them. Let's check!吃 - there
This is perhaps the most important hieroglyph of the Chinese language! In China, people, welcoming you, instead of asking: "How are you doing?", Frequently asked the question: "YOU ALE?".
喝 - Drinks
This hieroglyph is a combination of "mouth" elements, which indicates its value, and interjections with the value of the question that indicates pronunciation. One way to remember the meaning of the hieroglyph is to imagine how loud we scream, if you really want to drink.
火 - fire
This hieroglyph depicts a flame. It is often found in Chinese mythology, it existed a hierarchy of gods controlling fire.
Two "Fire" together mean "flaming" (炎). In a medical context, this hieroglyph also has the meaning of "inflammation". From the point of view of Europe, it is completely natural, since the Latin inflammatio is formed from inflammare, that is, to "wait for". (By the way, Russian "inflammation" also goes back to the word "Fur", that is, "burn")
土 - Soil / Earth
The earliest form of this hieroglyph portrayed a bunch of dirt on the surface. The lower horizontal line is still the surface of the earth, and a bunch of dirt turned into a cross over it.
In addition to the value of "soil", this hieroglyph also denotes the land, the basis. When this hieroglyph acts as an adjective, it denotes something primitive, landed.
星 - Star / Planet
The hieroglyph "Star" consists of the hieroglyphs "Sun" and "Birth / Born". The ancient Chinese believed that the sun looks like a star. The sun rules the world during the day, and the stars - at night.
They were right: the sun was born in the center of our universe, but it is just one star from millions of galaxy stars.星 may also indicate a person-star, celebrity in the entertainment industry.
天 - Sky
Nowadays, this hieroglyph consists of the hieroglyphs "one" and "big", showing a person, widely sprawling his hands under the sky. It also matters the "day" or "heaven".
工 - work
This hieroglyph looks like a foreign beam used in construction, which helps to remember its value "work". Initially, he symbolized a carpentry tool that was used to measure the corners.
The hieroglyph has not undergone significant changes in all his thousand-year history and is currently used in words related to work or pointing to something requiring effort.
口 - Rot
How clearly shows our illustration, the hieroglyph means "mouth". It's just a square, please do not pay attention to two legs at the bottom - they appeared because of the font that is used by the book!
阴 - Yin
Yin means "feminine", "woman", "muddy", "dark", "dubious", "secret" or, if we are talking about electricity, "negative."
陽 - Jan.
Yang has the meaning of "courageous", "man", "Sun", "Sunny", "Sunlight" or, if we are talking about electricity, "positive".
Other illustrations with Chinese hieroglyphs are looking for in the book "Chineasy every day."