Just curious to see who is actively studying Chinese here or speaks Chinese to some level (whether through study, as a native language, or a heritage language). This community seems a bit inactive at the moment so I am wondering about who might be lurking and have an interest even though the posting rate is a bit slow.

Describing your level/experience with Chinese and info about what language variety, writing system and such you are studying/speak is welcome.

  • 33rdJanuaryM
    4·
    2 years ago

    See my post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/204590

    But long story short, most characters are like 灌, or 霞, or 请, and are made up of two halves: one half contains the meaning (氵〔水〕、雨、讠〔言〕respectively), and the other half actually tells you how it’s pronounced (although sometimes imperfectly), that being 雚 guan4 for 灌 guan4, 叚 jia3/4 for 霞 xia2, and 青 qing1 for 请 qing3

    • Soviet SnakeM
      2·
      2 years ago

      I will have to take a look then, thanks for the information!