Russian Bread with Hanzi?

henning
August 12, 2007, 12:20 PM posted in General Discussion

Just ate some letter "A" and "T" Russian Bread pieces (my kids love those) and wondered if those letter shaped cookies are available for in Hanzi also?

Wouldn't that make a delicious learning device?

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ivyzhang
August 12, 2007, 12:25 PM

good idea, but i guess that it is a little hard:)

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daizi
August 13, 2007, 04:46 PM

Or, like Dutch letters (specializing in S's), stick to one character . I'd probably pick 一、二 or 三, depending on how hungry I was.

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tvan
August 12, 2007, 12:55 PM

Certainly an agument (albeit an extraordinarily weak one) for simplified characters.

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daizi
August 12, 2007, 02:56 PM

We make Chinese character cookies (hànzìbǐng) in my classes. Simplified 汉字饼 and traditional 漢字餅 are equally tasty, but you get more frosting with traditional.

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ethan
August 12, 2007, 03:22 PM

If there was chinese character spaghetti.....imagine how big the can would have to be!!!

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bazza
August 12, 2007, 12:26 PM

Or Chinese alphabeti spaghetti. hehe

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bazza
August 13, 2007, 07:59 AM

You would have join all the strokes together though.

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excuter
August 13, 2007, 12:53 PM

that would be a expensive but tasty learning tool... ;-)

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daizi
August 13, 2007, 02:13 PM

Cookie cutters would be too extravagent for a public school;->we're more into free-form characters, sorta 龙飞凤舞lóngfēifèngwǔ.

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goulnik
August 13, 2007, 04:28 PM

getting the first 214 radicals would get you started, after that it would just be a matter of assembling them, almost. but imagine how long it would take to eat the hanzi miantang 面汤 if you were to decipher each one? good slimming trick this

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amber
August 13, 2007, 07:51 AM

Henning, that is the best idea ever. What would be great would be cookie cutters. Except, can you imagine, you would have to buy a set of at least 3,000!?!