Lesson 1: Introduction to Chinese Characters

Learning Objective:  Students will be able to describe how the pictograms are formed

Components are the meaningful parts that when you divide a character, you don't cut through any line.

Strokes are the continuous motions (without lifting the pen off the paper) you need to write a character .

36 Chinese Characters 三十六个汉字Sān shí liù gè hàn zì