[ **up: [[China]] | [[Languages ]]** ] --- # Chinese language ## Subgroups of Chinese Language ![[Speechling (blog) - Subgroups of Mandarin Chinese.jpg]] Subgroups of Mandarin Chinese.[^1] --- - [[Chinese language--Honorifics]] - [[Chinese language--Idioms]] - [[Chengyu (Chinese idioms)]] - [[Chinese language--Slang]] --- ## Pictograms [[2024-0725. The character for wood 木 is a pictogram representing the roots, trunk, and spreading branches of a tree.|‘The written symbol for wood [木] … is a pictogram … representing the roots, trunk, and spreading branches of a tree.’]][^2] --- ## Learning Chinese - [How to Pronounce Mandarin like a Native - The Pinyin Family](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=342yyPpY4h0) [^1]: Michael Akira Neumann, *Speechling*, 23 September 2022, https://speechling.com/blog/chinese-pronunciation-erhua-is-the-r-sound-as-the-last-syllable-in-mandarin/. [^2]: C.A.S. Williams, *[[Williams. 'Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives', 1974.|Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives: An alphabetical compendium of antique legends and beliefs, as reflected in the manners and customs of the Chinese]]* (Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1974), pp. 440-441.