Chinese I: Pinyin and Strokes

Question 1

What are the six categories of characters?

Answer 1

1. Pictograms
2. Simple ideograms
3. Compound ideograms
4. Pictophonetic characters
5. Mutually explanatory characters
6. Phonetic loan characters

Question 2

pictographs

Answer 2

characters that resemble the shape of their meaning

Question 3

simple ideogram

Answer 3

characters that represent the concept of their meaning

Question 4

compound ideagrams

Answer 4

two or more ideograms are combined to represent the concept of their meaning

Question 5

pictophonetic characters

Answer 5

character with two parts; one that represents sound and the other represents meaning

Question 6

mutually explanatory characters

Answer 6

characters that share the same radical

Question 7

phonetic loan characters

Answer 7

characters with the same sound but different meaning

Question 8

What are all the basic strokes?

Answer 8

1. Dot
2. Horizontal
3. Vertical
4. Downward left
5. Downward right
6. Upward
7. Horizontal hook
8. Vertical hook
9. Slanted hook
10. Horizontal bend
11. Vertical bend

Question 9

What are the six stroke orders?

Answer 9

1. Left to right
2. Top to bottom
3. Horizontal before vertical
4. Outside to inside
5. Middle before two sides
6. Inside before closing