Heys guys, One really well-known and really changed from traditional chinese is the wei(we2i) ideogram. We usually can see it in construtions like: 为什么 meaning “Why”, but proper translation is “What reason?”. To understand how 为 is releated to “reason” on that way, first we need to come to back to traditional chinese. 为(wei, wéi, we2i)  is represented in tradiotional like an elephant. The fours drops are to represented the elephant’s feets. This ideogram comes from the ancients pictorams where an elephant guided by a human-hand were drawn to represent “to conduct”, “to guide”, “to act”. Above, you can see clearly an elephant. The elephant’s trunk is above hanged by a staff. Below, another imagem but much more closely to nowadays tradiotional. So, essentially the ideogram’s meaning is “to act” and “to conduct” . And this is related to “reason” because to conduct and guide an elephant requires a lot of someone’s hability to do it. 为 is widely used to e...

Heys guys!! What’s up! I hope you’re doing awesome!! Today I’m going to explain the Hui2 回. The 回 hanzi is widely used in chinese language to express “return”. For example 1) 现在我要回家 xiàn zài wǒ yào huí jiā Now I want to go home. (Return home) 2) 请，告诉她给我回个电话 Qǐng, gàosù tā gěi wǒ huí gè diànhuà Please, tell her to give me a call (A return call). So, both examples use Hui2回 to express “return”. At first glance when I looked this ideogram I was starring like “ How can this express the idea of returning?” Well, here is the explanation. In ancient China, there was the whirlpool pictoram.        If thought for a while you realise that In a whirlpool the water always  returns   to the origin. After many years it has evolved to that: So that’s why the word or idea of returning is expressed by drawn like that (A thing that returns to its origin).  Now, we have the current handwriting: So I hope...