Biáng is a Chinese character that’s so complex, it can’t be typed on a keyboard. With origins in China’s Shaanxi Province, the outrageous complexity of this character has given rise to many myths. In this video, I break down every component of biang, explain a rhyming jingle to help you remember how to write it, and tell my favorite tale of the its supposed origin!
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- When I started to learn Chinese Characters I decided to begin with this one. I thought: if I can write this one I’ll have no problem writing all of them
- I am very far from being able to write this character as I am a beginner but still enjoying to watch this video !!
- You can pronounce the words more clearly than most of the non-Mandarin speaking person. Thumb up from me! Thanks again and please continue to be so inspiring. 🙂
- Apex rising up to the sky. Over two bends by the Yellow River’s side. Character ‘eight’ is opening wide, While character ‘speech’ enters inside. You twist, I twist too, You grow, I grow with you. Inside a horse, the king will rule, “Heart” down below, “moon” by the side. Leave a hook for sesame candy to hang low. On our carriage, to Xianyang we’ll ride
- Lovely vedio! I am a Chinese mum with two kids born overseas,to whom i’ve been trying to introduce our culture. We had biáng biáng noodles this morning and I made up a dance to this jingle, helping them learn this fun character. Then we found your vedio which helps them understand much better. Thankyou!
- Huang is an ancient Chinese character with an unknown meaning but speculation says it describes the heavens. 172 strokes!
- i like your brief explanation and the story behind the character itself! so fascinating
- I had heard about this character before and I think it looks really cool. I will try to write it
- I will quote this video to my Chinese class to a gr 9 girl! thanks for the nice content, I will share this character and the song to write it! 😀
- Nice sharing of this video sir!!!I hope you can share alot of ideas and expressions of mandarin too.I’m just a beginner and now I’m a bit inspired to learn more because of ur nice sharin video!👍👍👍
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