Comments on: Stump the Chinese: Hard Hanzi

By: Wentao

Wentao — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:21:27 +0000

14/14.

By: Eternuer

Eternuer — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:42:23 +0000

@Randy:

嚏 (with 疋 at the corner) is indeed the more common, and nowadays the standard form taught at most schools.

嚔 (with ⼛ instead of the right-hooked stroke on top of 疋) is the more ancient form but now variant character.

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:01:50 +0000

13/14 in traditional form. ^_^

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:32:28 +0000

yeah, my wife only missed 嚔 from sneeze and 癌 from cancer. In my experience the best way to make a student be quiet in my class is to write 饨， as in 馄饨 (hun2tun2, or wonton in English), and then wait as they pronounce it as dun4 instead of tun2.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:09:26 +0000

Very interesting~~~
It’s funny, because I think I remember a lot of these characters coming up before when asking Chinese friends what the 汉字 are. I guess they are examples of characters you don’t write down often (a lot of which would be used all the time in conversation)..

By: 大羽

大羽 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:29:37 +0000

As a Chinese I felt shame for forgetting many many Chinese characters. The main reason is nowadays I seldom write with pen or pencile. Computer PinYin spelling software will make this worse and worse….

By: Amber

Amber — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:36:24 +0000

but I guess it’s all just a matter of practice. From my own experience of learning languages, I listen to english talk and write down english words almost everyday while I have less time to write chinese characters, which let me have trouble with chinese characters. if I don’t write chinese in a long time and once I try writing some characters I’ll get myself in very awkward situation,finding myself blank with a even very simple common character. Same thing is for Japanese characters, some of my chinese friends who major in japanese have a tendency to write down japanese kanji( which based on chinese characters) to substitute for the same meaning simplified chinese character.

By: Amber

Amber — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:23:52 +0000

Hi, I’m native Chinese with an bachelor degree in English. For me, the most difficult character would be 嚏. Others are okay, I can write them down correctly.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:58:28 +0000

My nv pengyou scored 13, she didnt know how to write the character 嚔 in dǎ pēntì 打喷嚔 (sneeze).

Pretty good eh! so much for advanced degree’s, she has a bachelors.

By: Zhongguoist

Zhongguoist — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:53:13 +0000

I managed to get a few of those right, but quite a few of those I’d never heard before like wrinkle….

I remember last year two of my friends arguing over which qi was in qizi(as in bottle opener). We never found out which one it was.