The 100 Most Common Chinese Characters

The building blocks of Chinese, part 1: Chinese characters and words in a nutshell

How Chinese characters are made🤣 Chinese characters aren’t random drawings or symbols you just memorize one by one. Most of them are built from smaller components that hint at meaning or pronunciation. Ancient scribes reused these building blocks and combined them to create new words. A Person next to a Tree means Rest. Three Trees mean Forest. Sun and Moon together mean Bright. So Chinese writing isn’t magic - it’s modular design. Once you learn the pieces, the system starts to make sense Foll