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Lesson 59

Today's Chinese characters:

守者艺术理发商

Guards, artists, barbers, and merchants are the actors of this third day dedicated to human occupations.

Characters' Essentials

Character

守

Pronunciation

shǒu

Meaning

-	Guard, defend

Character

者

Pronunciation

zhě

Meaning

-	Used after an adjective or verb as a substitute for a person or a thing

Character

艺

Pronunciation

yì

Meaning

-

Art

Character

术

Pronunciation

shù

Meaning

-

Art

Character

理

Pronunciation

lǐ

Meaning

-	Put in proper order, clean up, tidy up

Character

发

Pronunciation

fà

Meaning

-

Hair

Character

商

Pronunciation

shāng

Meaning

-	Merchant; commerce

Description and Examples

Word

守character: 守
pinyin: shǒu
details卫character: 卫
pinyin: wèi
details

Pronunciation

shǒu ­wèi

Meaning

Guard, defend

Word

守character: 守
pinyin: shǒu
details卫character: 卫
pinyin: wèi
details者character: 者
pinyin: zhě
details

Pronunciation

shǒu ­wèi ­zhě

Meaning

Guard

Word

艺character: 艺
pinyin: yì
details术character: 术
pinyin: shù
details

Pronunciation

yì ­shù

Meaning

Art; skill, craft; conforming to good taste

Word

艺character: 艺
pinyin: yì
details术character: 术
pinyin: shù
details家character: 家
pinyin: jiā
details

Pronunciation

yì ­shù ­jiā

Meaning

Artist

Word

理character: 理
pinyin: lǐ
details发character: 发
pinyin: fà
details

Pronunciation

lǐ ­fà

Meaning

Hair-cut, hairdressing

Word

理character: 理
pinyin: lǐ
details发character: 发
pinyin: fà
details师character: 师
pinyin: shī
details

Pronunciation

lǐ ­fà ­shī

Meaning

Barber, hairdresser

Word

理character: 理
pinyin: lǐ
details发character: 发
pinyin: fà
details员character: 员
pinyin: yuán
details

Pronunciation

lǐ ­fà ­yuán

Meaning

Barber, hairdresser

Word

商character: 商
pinyin: shāng
details人character: 人
pinyin: rén
details

Pronunciation

shāng ­rén

Meaning

Businessman, merchant, trader

Dialogue 37

Exercise

Use please your dictionary's tables of radicals (you should have got a dictionary by now!) to find meaning and pinyin of tomorrow's characters: 农character: 农
pinyin:
details, 夫character: 夫
pinyin:
details, 向character: 向
pinyin:
details, 导character: 导
pinyin:
details, 司character: 司
pinyin:
details, and 机character: 机
pinyin:
details.

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Characters' Details

Chinese Character 129 of 1000

appearance score: # 796
frequency: 0.0228749%

Character

守

Animation

Strokes

6

Pronunciation

shǒu

Meaning

-	Guard, defend; keep watch; observe, abide by; close to, near
-	(A surname)

There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.

Chinese Character 130 of 1000

appearance score: # 103
frequency: 0.1865459%

Character

者

Animation

Strokes

8

Pronunciation

zhě

Meaning

-	(Used after an adjective or verb as a substitute for a person or a thing)
-	(Used after 工作word: 工作 pinyin: gōngzuò details or 主义word: 主义 pinyin: zhǔyì details to indicate a person engaged in a certain profession or a believer in a doctrine)
-	(Used to indicate things mentioned above)

There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.

Chinese Character 131 of 1000

appearance score: # 786
frequency: 0.0233679%

Character

艺

Animation

Strokes

4

Pronunciation

yì

Meaning

-	Skill; art; norm, standard, criterion; limit
-	Plant, grow
-	(A surname)

This character has a different traditional version.

Traditional

Pronunciation

yì

Meaning

(same as simplified one's)

Chinese Character 132 of 1000

appearance score: # 328
frequency: 0.0680264%

Character

术

Animation

Strokes

5

Pronunciation

shù

Meaning

-	Art, skill, technique; method, tactics
-	(A surname)

Pronunciation

zhú

Meaning

-	(Second character of a few Chinese words like 白术word: 白术 pinyin: báizhú details meaning 'Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae')

This character has a different traditional version.

Traditional

Pronunciation

shù

Meaning

(same as simplified one's)

Chinese Character 133 of 1000

appearance score: # 89
frequency: 0.2057254%

Character

理

Animation

Strokes

11

Pronunciation

lǐ

Meaning

-	Reason, logic, truth; texture, grain (in wood, skin, etc.); natural science (esp. physics)
-	Manage, run, deal with; put in proper order, clean up, tidy up; take notice of, pay attention to
-	(A surname)

There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.

Chinese Character 134 of 1000

appearance score: # 47
frequency: 0.2960682%

Character

发

Animation

Strokes

5

Pronunciation

fà

Meaning

-

Hair

Pronunciation

fā

Meaning

-	Deliver, send out, issue; launch, shoot, emit; produce, generate; express, utter; expand, develop; flourish; rise, expand, rise when fermented, expand when soaked (of foodstuffs); spread out, disperse, diffuse; expose, open up, discover; become, turn, get into a certain state; show one's feeling; feel, have a feeling; start, set out; begin an undertaking, cause to do
-	(Measure word used for ammunition)
-	(A surname)

This character has two different traditional versions.

Traditional

Pronunciation

fà

Meaning

(same as simplified one's)

Traditional

Pronunciation

fā

Meaning

(same as simplified one's)

Chinese Character 135 of 1000

appearance score: # 402
frequency: 0.0544722%

Character

商

Animation

Strokes

11

Pronunciation

shāng

Meaning

-	Trade, commerce, business; merchant, trader, businessman, dealer; quotient; (a note of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale, corresponding to 2 in numbered musical notation); Shang Dynasty (c. 16th-11th century B.C.E.)
-	Discuss, consult
-	(A surname)

There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.

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