Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT D q k Lesson 7 Zh b zh j b i zh n b d i know others know self 100 battles without peril b zh b r zh j y sh ng y f not know others but know self a victory for every loss b zh b b zh j m i zh n b b i not know others not know self every battle inevitably lose A saying in Classical Chinese from S nzi s Art of War cited at the start of the video game Three Kingdoms VIII B that others appears in the modern language in the word b c mutual literally that and this and j in the word z j self oneself both illustrating once again the trend towards polysyllabic words in the modern language r which serves as a conjunction in the classical language and but appears in the modern expression rqi moreover 7 0 F x review 1 Answer the questions As you prepare to answer the following questions written alternately in the traditional and simplified sets encircle those characters that have two forms then answer the questions briefly you will probably want to write the simplified set for all answers See glossary at the end of this section for occasional new words i hu d 1 a 2 b 3 4 d c 1 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT 5 e 6 f 7 g 8 h ii 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e 6 f 2 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT 7 g iii 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d Y h o xi n w ng ot Zh ngx n B ij ng d ti 2006 1 line to O lympic Sta dium Center 3 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT Notes be connected with pi o ticket y u oil ni cow p zh n allowed ch deb o able to eat one s fill sh ji world 2 Focus on tones practice reading aloud the following tonal sets 3 Compose characters from the constituents listed best to work in teams i ji nt z s ndi nshu q ngk de q ng de y ubi nr s ndi nshu m iti n de m i zh z t u m ob de m o m z p ng b du de b hu z p ng y nw i de y n t z p ng h t ng de t ng de y ubi nr s ndi nshu k y de k sh ng y u sh o xi y u m y nj ng de y si sh ng y u m sh mu de m xi you z s ndi nshu xi nsh ng de xi n k uz p ng su y de su de zu bi n w ngz p ng s n l l de l z xi ng d fang de f ng d nshi sh o le d y ge b hu ii s ndi nshu sh ng y u m ng de y ubianr m z p ng y nz p ng zu bi n y u ge yu z h ch de h de y ubi nr xi y u ge x n z j su de j q ngj n de j n de y ubi nr k nb o de b o de y ubi nr 4 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin y nz p ng hu z p ng sh ng y u ge d ngxi de x z xi ng d u y y ng sh ng y u ge y ngr u de y ng sh ng y u ge b z sh ng y u ge r n z sh ng y u ge y ng z Julian K Wheatley MIT xi oh izi de h i de y ubi nr du shao de sh o xi y u ge n z sh o le ge y u rdu xi y u ge g ngzu de g ng z xi y u ge k u xi y u ge m qin de m xi y u ge d 4 Dialogue F B l 1990 5 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT New Characters The 300 plus characters introduced in the first six character lessons together with your knowledge of a much larger vocabulary of compounds that make use of these characters now make it feasible to introduce new characters in more diverse and interesting ways So Characters 7 is organized around a narrative Sets 1 and 2 a traditional tale Set 3 and several weather reports Set 4 The total number of characters explicitly introduced is about the same as in previous lessons but the number presented only in glossaries is larger A feasible goal for students would be to be able to read aloud and comprehend all of the main texts without reference to the vocabulary lists and to recognize those characters introduced in large format with notes but not those provided only in the glossaries in novel combinations and contexts In other words the focus should be as always on learning to recognize the core sets of characters in a variety of contexts 7 1 Set 1 4 8 ch o dynasty 5 3 3 9 zh d o know 4 5 z ancestor 3 10 b n 6 0 zh bamboo 6 8 su n 6 10 7 6 9 6 7 8 5 9 8 9 2 5 xi n 2 4 n ng county district agriculture 6 3 3 8 y ng zh nurture raise pig 6 move remove calculate 4 8 5 4 3 6 zh ng zh ng su r n kind sort to plant although Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT 6 12 3 6 2 6 4 2 1 5 6 3 5 3 6 6 2 6 ji nd n simple ordinary 3 3 h ng red 2 6 zh straight w room j tool s die Notes a Contrast the left hand side of and the former contains topped with And contrast the left hand side of with the former contains sh arrow to the left of The second syllable of d o means way route which is the source of the word that has entered the English language as Tao The notion obviously has great import in Chinese philosophical thought To cite one example the opening lines of the D o D J ng often romanized as Tao Te Ching The Classic of Tao and Virtue attributed to L oz around the 4th or 3rd centuries BC opens in the written Chinese of two and a half centuries ago with the cryptic and economical comment D o k d o f i ch ng d o The Tao that can be spoken is not the proper Tao b The radical for z ancestor is as in the of TV whose 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