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APP Resources

Video Resources

Website Resources

  1. Mini-guide of Chinese characters (fun facts and interactive games), from BBC Learning Chinese Course http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/mini_guides/characters/

  2. The illustration of the evolution of the Chinese character for dragon, from Brown University.

  3. Detailed introduction of Oracle bone script (including history, discovery and its value), from Chinasage http://www.chinasage.info/oraclebones.htm

  4. Detailed introduction of Calligraphy (including different styles, famous calligrapher and four treasures of the Chinese scholar), from Chinasage http://www.chinasage.info/calligraphy.htm

1. A Character-Building Challenge, from

  1. iLearn Chinese Characters Lite
    It includes character pronunciation, meanings, formation, stroke order demonstration, basic usages, and writing practice and unit tests.

  2. Chinese Writer from trainchinese
    It’s a point-gaining application that provides 5300 Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters, stroke-order diagrams, English explanations and high quality audio recordings from characters pronunciation.

  3. Art of Chinese Characters
    It has three parts:Find- find the connection part of Chinese characters from the painting.Learn-learn the meaning, pronunciation, phrases, stroke order and origin.Practice-quick review and try to match the Chinese characters to their English meaning.

  4. Learn Chinese Characters-Flashcards by WCC

  5. Skitter

  6. Pleco (English-Chinese Dictionary)

  7. 100 Chinese Characters
    It provides the pronunciations of 100 Chinese characters and explains their evolution with annotations and poems, plus relevant sections including encyclopedia, music and class by means of four functions of listening, viewing, reading and writing.

2. Discovering China-Calligraphy and Zhuge Liang, from

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3. Stories of Chinese characters, you can subscribe the channel Chou Meizai to watch more videos of stories of Chinese characters. Below is one of the videos talking about Character "口" (means mouth), from

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