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What's Your Favourite Character?


BeijingMadeEasy

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My hands down favorite character is . I've always loved the 知 of 知道, where knowledge or awareness is seen as the spoken word which pierces through the BS like an arrow. Wisdom is knowledge that illuminates, hence the addition of the sun to 知 makes 智. How elegant! If I ever give my kids Chinese names, the first syllable will be 智 for all of them. Unless, of course, this character can't be used in names.

My second favorite character, incidentally, is which is used along with my first favorite character to write 智慧. In addition to being aesthetically pleasing (to my eye at least), I again admire how concrete the character 慧 can make a concept as abstract as wisdom: my etymology may be wrong, but I think it's met to represent two hands grasping a broom and sweeping up the dust inside one's 心. And even if that etymology's wrong, that's probably how I'm going to see that character from now on anyways. :)

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Darn, Strawberries beat me to it! I was going to say fei 非常 written together is very nice looking. I also think is very cool looking. I like the double characters. I also like . The radical is one of my favorites. ^^

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My favourite 汉字/漢字 (hànzì) is one which does not actually exist but is a combination of 招财进宝/招財進寶 (zhāo cái jìn bǎo) meaning "to let riches and treasures come in". It often appears on gifts and decorations:

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Every period has a different favourite hanzi for me. I felt a little proud when I learned to write by hand without looking up character .

I am not even trying to memorise hanzi as complex as the one Yangdizi posted. :mrgreen:

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