Hanbridge Mandarin Chinese Online Learning

As a Mandarin teacher, students frequently ask me: “If I want to learn Chinese characters to be able to live conveniently in China, how many characters is enough?” Unfortunately, there is no accurate way to count how many Chinese characters one should know. However, depending on how one counts variants, 50,000+ is a good approximation for the current total number. It is generally accepted that one needs to know between 2,000 to 3,500 characters for basic literacy in Chinese (for example, to read a Chinese newspaper), while a well-educated person should know well in excess of 4,000 to 5,000 characters. Don’t be scared by the numbers; if you know a few thousand, you’ll be just fine. Here, I list the most frequently used Chinese characters that can help you survive in China. 1. Verbs to know: 是 shì to be 开 kāi open/hold 在 zài to be in/at/on 用 yòng use 有 yǒu have/there is 会 huì can/to meet; meeting 要 yào want/will/need 见 jiàn to meet 来 lái come 出 chū go out/come out...

Learn how to count numbers in Chinese is very necessary for living in China. Although the whole world is using the Arabic numerals, you still need to learn how to read them in Chinese, and how to write them in Chinese characters. 1. Number’s Chart in Chinese Character (from 0 to 10) Number Chinese character Pinyin English 0 零 línɡ zero 1       一 yī one 2 二 èr two 3 三 sān three 4    四 sì four 5    五 wǔ five 6    六 liù six 7    七 qī seven 8    八 bā eight 9    九 jiǔ nine 10    十 shí ten Pay attention to number 1 and number 2, the pronunciation of these two numbers are a bit special in Chinese, when 1 exits in tel-phone numbers or address numbers, we prefer to say " yāo " instead of " yī ", number 2 is a bit complicated, when we do the count, the number 2 is always read as " èr ", when it occurs with a measure word...