December 18th, 2005
Merry Christmas in Chinese Characters
This month I’ve had about 60 searchers come to my website in hopes of finding out how to write “Merry Christmas” in Chinese. Each day, that number grows and now I’m starting to feel a little guilty because there is absolutely nothing on my site that shows how to write “圣诞快乔 Merry Christmas, or Sheng Dan Kuai Le!
So, I asked Mark how to write it for me so I could put it up here, but instead he found a nice website about Chinese Characters, called Good Characters. There, they have an excellent tutorial showing the proper stroke order on how to write “Merry Christmas” in traditional Chinese, and a little red box in the corner showing the simplified Chinese version. It also plays a clear recording on how to pronounce it, but the one thing I couldn’t find was the tone for each word. For anyone wondering, it’s Sheng(4) Dan(4) Kuai<4) Le(4).
December 19th, 2005 at 11:25 am
Hey, I’m Remy’s friend meaghan. I’ve really been enjoying your journal. I have a question about the site you linked to here: what are the red characters in the corners of the grids? Are they related to the characters being drawn?
December 19th, 2005 at 11:26 am
oops, I guess I could have read your post a littel more clearly, eh? Mai Pen Lai…
December 19th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Hi Meaghan, thanks for stopping by. Yup the corner has the ugly simplified Chinese, you got it!
on a side note: Even though the simplified characters are not as nice looking as the traditional, I really noticed how much easier they were to recognize while I was in China, compared to when I lived in Taiwan. During 4 months in China, I learned to recognize many more characters than I did in 2+ years in Taiwan.
December 26th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
Hi Mark and Les! I hope you guys had an awesome Christmas. I miss you a lot and am anxiously waiting to hear when you’ll be back in town! Happy New Year!! love, S.
December 26th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Hi Sarah!
I’m home! I’ll call you tomorrow!