ABSTRACT
Re-arrange the word order of the following three groups so that each group becomes a meaningful sentence:
(a) hln, yl, wn, jiàndào, gaoxìng, nm (b) qmng, jiào, Dàwèi, wn (c) lái, Zhdngguó, nm, huanyíng
Now, let us try writing (or drawing!) some characters. The following four characters in their pinyin form have been used in Dialogue 1:
nm hko How do you do?/hello (lit. ‘you well/good’) Zhdngguó China (lit. ‘central country’)
When Chinese children start writing characters, they use square boxes with either shaded or dotted cross lines in the middle:
The purpose of the box is to help them get the size and the proportion of the character right.
