Chinese Pinyin lesson 5 part 2

Chinese Pinyin lesson 5 part 2

You will learn six finals (ia, iao, ie, ian, iang, iong), three initials (j, q, x) and related rules in this lesson. When you get help from others, how do you express gratitude in Chinese? You may visit www.echineseonline.com to learn more.

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Learn Chinese Characters — Needle

by Gao

The Chinese characters 针 meaning is needle.

The original form of this Chinese character comprises 金 (metal) and 咸 (bite). The needle takes up, as it were, mouthfuls of cloth, biting its way along. The regular form it has a good point, with the substitute phonetic 十resembling a threaded needle - warning us never to bite off more than we can chew, for “No needle is sharp at both ends.”