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Chinese Characters & Writing Strokes : How to Write the Numbers 1,2 & 3 in Chinese Calligraphy

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Uploaded by on Jan 22, 2008

Find out how to write 1, 2 and 3 in Chinese calligraphy in this free video clip on Asian calligraphy and language.

Expert: Bo Feng
Bio: Bo Feng is an experienced Chinese/English translator and interpreter. He has worked for Chinese International Travel Services, Lingnan Art Publishing House and Phillips Petroleum.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

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  • 一二三四五六七八九十零......simplified character

    壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖零......classical character

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 Arabic numerals

  • not similar. Japanese kanji IS chinese. back then china was the major trendsetter of the east. most of asia (ie japan; korea) either borrowed or was inspired by their culture. kanji literally means "Han characters".

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  • @urtellas They're actually Indian numerals. From the relevant Wikipedia page: "They are descended from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed by Indian mathematicians, in which a sequence of digits such as "975" is read as a numeral. The Indian numerals were adopted by the Persian mathematicians in India, and passed on to the Arabs further west."

  • @urtellas that is not quite true actually. 一二三四五六七八九十 is the "normal" way of writing numbers, 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖 and 拾 (which u forgot to mention) is the way of writing numbers on banknotes, checks etc. (comparable to writing "one" instead of "1").

  • @marcuslaughton ur a dirty naker haa

  • 中国是像我母亲的十二英寸公鸡同性恋....笑话!搞乱真的..­我搞乱。

  • Hmm I just thought I should mention that the characters 壹贰叁肆伍陆柒捌玖零 aren't necessarily traditional characters. Rather, they are used when dealing with numbers financially, such as in cheques and share markets.

    Writing in this way makes it more difficult to manipulate the numbers. It is very easy to change the character 一 to 三 by adding a few strokes to it.

  • 字这么难看也敢教中文!

  • @urtellas 拾 不見了

  • Я вельмі люблю гэты мову

  • @urtellas are classical characters very hard to seeonly for those who don't know them?

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