Sound-Based Associations

Chinese has over 400 syllables, and characters with similar sounds often carry related meanings.

Use sound to guess meaning — or meaning to recall sound. This natural link makes Chinese easier to learn and remember.

Every Chinese stroke carries meaning.

Our method restores the visual logic behind characters — helping you recognize and remember them at a glance.

• For example, the stroke “㇄” resembles an upright person kneeling, while “乚” suggests a kneeling figure with a hooked foot.
• Many characters are visual: “耳” (ear) looks like an ear. The earlier the character, the more pictographic it is.

Learn Once, Master for Life

Chinese characters are made of meaningful parts — master the parts, and the characters become easy. Take this vivid example from Shaanxi:

• People live in cave homes shaped like the character “穴” (cave).
• The sound of noodle dough hitting the board — biang biang — mimics a spoken word.
• Horse caravans travel long distances; wide noodles satisfy deep hunger.
• The dough (幺) is stretched long; meat (月) makes it rich and savory.
• The ancient road is dangerous — a knife (刂) is always at your side.
• Missing home deeply, you begin your journey with the “walk” radical (辶).

At the heart of Chinese is this truth:
Master the components, and the language unfolds.