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    The document summarizes a Chinese character class taught by Lisa Crawford. The class goals are to understand how Chinese characters work, recognize characters seen outside, and have fun learning. New characters are practiced through tracing, copying, and writing from memory with stroke order. Common character elements are introduced like wood, fire, soil, and their meanings. Ways to combine elements into characters are shown. Additional character words are listed at the end.

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    The document summarizes a Chinese character class taught by Lisa Crawford. The class goals are to understand how Chinese characters work, recognize characters seen outside, and have fun learning. New characters are practiced through tracing, copying, and writing from memory with stroke order. Common character elements are introduced like wood, fire, soil, and their meanings. Ways to combine elements into characters are shown. Additional character words are listed at the end.

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    CNY Character Class

    taught by Lisa Crawford


    Goals

    • Understand how Chinese characters work

    • Recognize some of the characters you see out on


    the street

    • Have fun and build enthusiasm for learning


    characters
    How to practice
    each new character…
    1. Trace with finger—with correct stroke order—
    several times (strokeorder.info)

    2. Copy in squares several times while picturing the


    image or story

    3. Cover and try to write on your own

    *If you are also practicing the pronunciation, listen to


    it in Pleco and say it aloud each time you write it
    Elements
    wood/tree

    mù
    fire

    huǒ
    soil

    tǔ
    gold
    * can also mean more generally
    “metal,” but we will call it its more
    jīn specific meaning “gold” and its
    modified form, ,“metal”
    water

    shuǐ
    sun

    rì *used to be a circle with a dot in


    the middle
    moon

    yuè *used to be a crescent shape


    mountain

    shān
    stream

    chuān
    middle

    zhōng
    gold soil

    stream sun

    moon fire

    mountain tree

    water middle
    jīn yuè

    huǒ shuǐ

    mù shān

    chuān zhōng

    tǔ rì
    gold soil middle

    stream sun water

    moon fire mountain

    tree
    jīn shān chuān

    huǒ shuǐ tǔ

    yuè rì mù

    zhōng
    Additional Words

    • volcano

    • Jinshan (District in Shanghai)

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