Hello welcome back, this is lesson 5 of the YoYo 300 level 1. In this lesson we will learn
3 more important characters. Let's get started. Each of the characters in this lesson represents
a body part. And they are all what you see is what you get type of characters. Once you know
these characters, not only will you be able to identify them on their own, but you will
also be ready to identify them as components inside other characters.
Here's our first one. This is the word for mouth or opening, it's pronounced kǒu.
It's basically just
a square or a box, right? So it's very easy to imagine this as being a mouth or opening
of some sort.
This is how kǒu is written stroke by stroke.
Now let's read this word together
rén kǒu.
Literally person mouth. Rén kǒu actually means population.
It's like
you are counting the number of mouths that have to be fed when you are talking about
how many people are in a certain place.
You also find the character kǒu in words like
mén kǒu door way
and chū kǒu exit.
We will see kǒu used as a component inside other
characters a lot in the future lessons.
Ok, let's move on to the next one.
This is our
next character, it means hand and pronounced shǒu. This was originally a picture of palm
with lines on it. But it has changed over time. Now you can kind of picture it if you
use your imagination.
This is how shǒu is written stroke by stroke.
We came across the
word shǒu when we learn how to say toilet or restroom. Xǐ shǒu jiān which literally
means wash hands room.
The way to say wash your hand is xǐ shǒu.
This is also the character
that's used in the word for cellphone or mobile phone. Shǒu jī which literally means hand machine.
Ok, let's move on to our last body part character for this lesson.
This is our last character for this lesson. It's pronounced xīn and it means heart.
It refers to both
the organ of the body as well as the place where emotions come from. Just like the word
heart in english. The character is a picture of the heart organ with those 3 dots representing
the blood as it flows in and out of it.
This is how xīn is written stroke by stroke.
Let's read this word together
zhōng xīn.
Zhōng xīn literally means middle heart but it actually
means center as in city center or shopping center. If you switch those two characters
around, you get another word. Read it with me
xīn zhōng.
Xīn zh ōng means in the
heart or in the mind as in nǐ zài wǒ xīn zhōng.
You are in my heart. Or you are on
my mind.
This is also the same character that's in the word kāi xīn
happy.
Kǒu
Shǒu
Xīn
Alright, very well done. You have already completed 5 lessons which means you now know
at least 15 characters. So see you next time for our first review lesson. Alright, zài jiàn.