I heard a rumor about a character...

orangina
 April 07, 2010 at 01:32 PM posted in General Discussion

A friend just told me there is a character that if you learn how to write i, you can write any other charater. But she does not know what it is. Has anyone else heard this? More importantly, does anyone know what it is?

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bababardwan
 April 08, 2010 at 01:34 AM

橙伊纳，

谢谢你的很好的谣言问题

长夜，

多谢你的非常好的回答。。我真喜欢这个词“永”。。很有趣。。：）

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changye
 April 07, 2010 at 02:51 PM

Hi orangina

Looks like you made a very good start for learning Chinese.

 

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orangina
 April 07, 2010 at 02:43 PM

哈哈！If "forever" is the character I'm looking for that is pretty great. It is actually the first character I learned.

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changye
 April 07, 2010 at 01:52 PM

Hi orangina

Probably it's the character “永”, which contains eight commonly used strokes in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Principles_of_Yong

http://baike.baidu.com/view/52693.htm

 

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John
 April 08, 2010 at 03:38 AM

I remember also learning this about the character 永 when I briefly studied calligraphy.

It's a little confusing, because the character 永 only has five strokes. But within them, these five strokes contain 8 different individual stroke types.