Chinese Pinyin / Characters Introduction

Keli Su9/1/2014

Objective:

1. Learn about the Chinese language2. Become familiar with basic Chinese pronunciation3. Know the six categories of Chinese Characters;4. Know the Chinese Characters have evolved Throughout Chinese history.

Consonants & Vowels

b p m f d t n lg k h j q x zh ch sh r z c sa o e i u ühttp://kid.chinese.cn/rhymes/article/2011-02/23/content_229524.htmhttp://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Pinyin_Notes.htm#2. Consonantshttp://www.yoyochinese.com/Chinese_pinyin_cheat_sheet.jpg

Read with me

http://www.yes-chinese.com/pinyin/

Pinyin & Zhuyin

Tones

• Four tones First tone (¯) Second tone (´) Third tone (ˇ) Fourth tone (ˋ)

• Neutral tone No tone marks on the neutral tone漢語拼音教學動畫大全http://blog.huayuworld.org/school17/12342/2009/04/08/27586tone: b: http://blog.huayuworld.org/gallery/9554/pinyin_00_b.swf a: http://blog.huayuworld.org/gallery/9554/pinyin_00_a.swf

Pinyin practice

• Tonehttp://pinyinpractice.com/tones.htm• Initialhttp://pinyinpractice.com/initials.htm• Finalhttp://pinyinpractice.com/finals.htm• Quizhttp://pinyinpractice.com/selfquiz.htm

Traditional Chinese漢字

Simplified Chinese汉字

Writing

Six Categories ( 六书 / 六書 ). 1. Pictograms 象形字2. Ideograms 指事字3. Ideogrammic compounds 会意字4. Phono-semantic compounds 形声字5. Transformed cognates 转注字6. Rebus 假借字

Pictograms 象形字

Characters in this class derive from pictures

日 rì for "sun",

月 yuè for "moon“, 木 mù for "tree”,

Ideograms 指事字

Characters either modify existing pictographs iconically, or are direct iconic illustrations

上 shàng "up“ 下 xià "down”

Ideogrammic compounds 会意字

Translated literally as logical aggregates or associative compounds, these characters symbolically combine pictograms or ideograms to create a third character.

木 mù "tree”林 lín "grove", 森 sēn "forest".

Phono-semantic compounds 形声字The phono-semantic compounds, also called semantic-phonetic compounds or pictophonetic compounds.

pictographic phonetic 河 hé “river”, 氵 shuǐ 可 kě

湖 hú "lake", 氵 shuǐ 胡 hú

Transformed cognates 转注字

The mutual-explanatory characters typically are a pair or a group of characters, that share the same radical and have similar meaning.

考 kǎo "to verify"

老 lǎo "old" were once the same character, meaning "elderly person"

Rebus 假借字

Also called borrowings or phonetic loan characters, this category covers cases where an existing character is used to represent an unrelated word with similar pronunciation; sometimes the old meaning is then lost completely.

自 zì, "oneself“, original meaning of "nose”

萬 wàn, "ten thousand“, originally meant "scorpion”

Basic strokes

Stroke order

Chinese Characters

• Play the video ~5 min ( 中国文化欣赏 _ 汉字 )

Radicals

• http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/output/index.html

• 人 刀 力 又 口 囗 土 夕 大 女 子 寸 小 工 弓 心 戈 手 日 月 木 水 火 田 目 示 糸 耳 衣 言 貝 走 足 金 門 隹 雨 食 馬

• IC2E_L1P1_p22 from www.cheng-sui.com_files_IC2E_L1P1_TxtSimp_4609_0.pdf

Two Chinese radical charts

Group work:1. make 5 groups2. Each group take one column3. Group discussing thensharing

Self practice_1:1. Matching the words2. Exchange the paper to score

Self practice_2:1. Matching the words2. Exchange the paper to score

Let us practice: 衣魚母子車

Classroom Expressions_1

1. Nǐ hǎo! How are you? How do you do?2. Lǎoshī hǎo! How are you, teacher?3. Shàng kè. Let’s begin the class.4. Xià kè. The class is over.5. Dǎ kāi shū. Open the book.6. Wǒ shuō, nǐmen tīng.

I’ll speak, you listen.7. Kàn bái bǎn. Look at the whiteboard.

classroom_expression_1.mp3

Classroom Expressions_2

8. Duì bú duì? Is it right?9. Duì! Right! Correct!10. Hěn hǎo! Very good!11. Qǐng gēn wǒ shuō. Please repeat after me.12. Zài shuō yí biàn. Say it again.13. Dǒng bu dǒng? Do you understand?14. Dǒng le. Yes, I/we understand; I/we do.15. Zài jiàn! Good-bye!

classroom_expression_2.mp3

Survival Expressions 1. Duì bù qǐ! Sorry!2. Qǐng wèn... Excuse me...; May I ask...3. Xiè xie! Thanks!4. Zhè shì shén me? What is this?5. Wǒ bù dǒng. I don’t understand.6. Qǐng zài shuō yí biàn. Please say it one more time.7. “…” Zhōng wén zěn me shuō?

How do you say “…” in Chinese?8. “…” shì shén me yì si? What does “…” mean?9. Qǐng nǐ gěi wǒ... Please give me...10. Qǐng nǐ gào sù wǒ... Please tell me...

survival_expression.mp3

Supplement

• Links for Integrated Chinese Level 1: Introductionhttp://eall.hawaii.edu/yao/ICUsers/ic1Int.htm• 中文听说读写 : http://www.language.berkeley.edu/ic/ I / C conversation, test & lots more.

• Tools: http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/• 漢典 ( 汉典) ： http://www.zdic.net/

• 全民大词典：http://www.yes-chinese.com/v2010/dict_ce/search.do

21 Century Tech

• Your eMail address• Web accessing for the assignment• Listening: Add voice clip into the handout• Speaking: You record the voice clip to me• Reading: Add voice clip into the handout• Writing: Type 汉字 into computer• Internet sharing

Q & A