Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
University of Oxford

CTCFL Chinese name

 

How to write Chinese Characters
 1. Instructions 2. Information on radicals

 

Click on the following Chinese characters to watch how a character is written.

Single structure

 

Left and right structure

绿

 

Up and down structure

     

 

Left, middle and right structure

    

 

Up, middle and down structure

  

 

Semi-encircle structure

 

Encircle structure