Basic Chinese Character Components - People

Animated Cartoon to remember 14 Chinese Characters and Character components. This is part of my cartoon series to help beginner and intermediate students of Mandarin Chinese, as well as Cantonese and Japanese, memorize character parts. When you first look at a Chinese text, it may seem that characters are made out of random strokes and dots, but it’s not so. In fact, there are just a few dozen so-called radicals, and maybe a couple hundred otherwise classified character components, that comprise a fair sh