我最喜欢的汉字_风闻

龙腾网-2020-06-24 14:53

2020-06-24

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MY FAVOURITE CHINESE CHARACTERS

1.我最喜欢的汉字

Most people think learning Chinese is difficult. Every time I’m back in Spain and I tell someone I can speak Chinese, they invariably reply with a: “Wow! Isn’t it super complicated?”. Some (weird) people claim that it is in fact very easy, though normally these people are just trying to sell you their “learn Chinese in 3 months” courses. I agree that the grammar is in general not very difficult, although remembering the correct classifier for each noun can be difficult at times, and I remember I had a very hard time grasping how some verbal constructions work. Some people say they learned to speak fluent Chinese in the street and I’m happy for them but I’m not so language-gifted (6 years in Suzhou and the local dialect still sounds like Japanese to me). There’s one thing I know for sure, though: in my opinion, if you can’t write the characters, you can’t really say you know Chinese.

大多数人认为学习中文是很困难的。每次我回到西班牙，告诉别人我会说中文，他们总是回答:“哇！它难道不是超级复杂吗？”一些(奇怪的)人声称学习中文实际上很简单，虽然通常这些人只是想向你推销他们的“三个月学中文”课程。我同意语法通常不是很难，但记住每个名词的正确分类有时会很困难，而且我记得我很难理解一些动词结构是如何运用的。有些人说他们在街上学会了说一口流利的中文，我为他们感到高兴，但我不是那么有语言天赋(在苏州呆了6年，当地方言对我来说仍然听起来像日语)。但有一件事我可以肯定:在我看来，如果你不会写汉字，你就不能说你懂中文。

When I was studying Chinese, we had to learn to write all the characters by hand. I guess it’s still like this. If you don’t practise writing each new character 20 times, it’s practically impossible to remember all the strokes. Nowadays writing by hand is not really that important, as everybody uses pinyin or wubihua to type on computers and phones and no one really writes by hand much (except students, of course) but I am really glad I got to learn how to write lots of characters. At the beginning you are taught the easier ones, the ones that used to represent graphically a tangible thing, like moon or sun, and you think: “Hey! This is very easy and fun!”. Then things start becoming complicated and it is not fun anymore when you have to spend 6 hours practising new characters (i.e. me when I had just arrived to Beijing).

当我学中文的时候，我们必须学会用手写所有的汉字。我想现在还是这样。如果你不练习把每个新字写20遍，你几乎不可能记住所有的笔画。现在手写已经不那么重要了，因为每个人都用拼音或者五笔在电脑和手机上打字，没有人真正用手写字(当然，学生除外)，但是我真的很高兴我学会了如何写很多字。一开始，你被教授了一些比较简单的东西，用图形化的方式表示一个有形的东西，比如月亮或者太阳，你会想:“嘿！这很简单，也很有趣！”然后事情开始变得复杂，当你不得不花6个小时练习新的汉字时(也就是我刚到北京的时候)，这就不再有趣了。

The title of the most difficult character in simplified Chinese is usually given to biang, a type of noodle dish. Luckily it is not commonly used and the only ones who would have to write it would be the waiters or owners of restaurants serving these noodles. However, it is so complicated that they sometimes write the pinyin instead because, really, why would anyone bother to write this?

简体中文中最难的汉字通常被称为biang，是一种面食。幸运的是，这个词并不常用，只有服务员或餐馆老板才会写这个词。然而，它是如此的复杂，以至于他们有时会用拼音来代替，因为是的，为什么会有人费心去写这个字呢？

This is not a joke, it’s a real character! And the traditional version is even worse…

这不是玩笑，这是一个真实的汉字！而且传统的版本更复杂…

I prefer simpler characters. My absolute favourite is undoubtedly this one:

我更喜欢简单的汉字，毫无疑问，我最喜欢的就是这个:

Can you guess what it means? It is very easy: skewer! Isn’t it great? You don’t need to know Chinese to understand it because it’s super clear! It is pronounced chuan and if you are in the north of China you will need to add many r behind it to be understood: chuanrrrrrr.

你能猜出这是什么意思吗？很简单：串！是不是很棒？你不需要知道中文就能理解它，因为它表述得非常清楚！如果你在中国的北方，你需要在它后面加上许多r才能理解:串儿~~~。

Another character that I like is san:

我喜欢的另一个汉字是伞: