Learn to Write Chinese in Characters Riddles

Chinese character is a complicated but also interesting language system. We can often hear or see the Chinese character riddles everywhere. If you can give a quick response to some character riddles, that means you have reached to a high level in your Chinese character writing.

You may have already attended many Chinese language courses. And this course is for Chinese character riddles. Are you ready?

Let’s start from some simple ones.

“一人(yi4 ren2).” You guess a Chinese character. I can give you a hint. How about combining “一” and “人”? What character will you get? I will never tell you the answer is “大(da4)”.

“一人在内(yi4 ren2 zai4 nei4).” Guess a Chinese character. The solving method is similar to the above. By combining you may get a “肉(rou4)”. Do you find it is very interesting to learn to write Chinese in this way?

And then, we will come to a more complicated one. “一人一张口，口下长只手(yi4 ren2 yi4 zhang1 shou3, kou3 xia4 zhang3 zhi1 shou3)”. By combining “人,口 and 手”, it seems we can not get the answer. Actually, sometimes we need to change the orders of the parts. So the right answer to it is “拿(na2)”. The upper part is a “合”. It is consisted of “人(ren2), 一(yi1) and 口(kou3).” And so it is called “一人一张口”. And then, we add a “手” under the “合” and we may get the answer “拿”, which means “take ” in English.

There are some other riddles which can not be solved only by combination. For example, “一夜又一夜(yi2 ye4 you4 yi2 ye4)”, guess a character. By guessing such a kind of riddles, you need to learn to change some characters. The “夜(ye4)” here can be replaced into “夕(xi1), which is a equivalence to “夜” in Chinese ”. So, we can get a “多(duo1)”——the double “夕”.

If you are interested in it, you can search Chinese characters online to know more characters riddles.