Chinese characters are so complicated. They can be formed up by a few individual characters like you see in the examples above or different “parts” or strokes. There are even words that changed its form slightly when used to combine with others into a word, complicated, huh?
To simplify things, you can think of each individual words/parts/strokes as “alphabets” and they add up to form a word.
Now, this quiz is fairly simple. I won’t be asking you to learn the characters, but I’d jumble some characters up and ask you to try guess what characters they can form. Take it as a picture puzzle game and you’ll find it easier 🙂
Hint: look carefully at the strokes.
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Which character did these form?
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Yes
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No
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t
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Which character did these form?
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Yes
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No
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Which character did these form?
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Which character did these form?
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Yes
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No
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Which character did these form?
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Which character did these form?
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Yes
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No
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Which character did these form?
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Which character did these form?
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Yes
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No
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Which character did these form?
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Which character did these form?
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Yes
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Which character did these form?
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No
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Which character did these form?
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Yes
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No
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Which character did these form?
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Which character did these form?
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Yes
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No
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Which character did these form?
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Question of
This word is read as chÄ«… What do you think it means?
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Rice
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Food
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Eat
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Dig
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This word is read as cÇŽo. What do you think it means?
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Flowers
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Grass
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Tea
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Tree
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You got 6 out of 10 right!
Interesting quizz 🙂
8/10 but then I recognized some of those characters, so…
IMHO, cao looks more like a flower than grass
Yeah, I can understand why by its form … maybe the grass looks like flowers in the past ? lol
perhaps it was the generic character for plants and then got changed to grass specifically?
You got 7 out of 10 right!
I missed the last three.
Wow! Impressive!
The last question of the “picture quiz” is slightly different while the last 2 needs some chinese knowledge! :p
You got 2 out of 10 right!
Bad day, right?
Score doesn’t matter!
I’m so glad you gave this quiz a try! 🙂
i got 7 out of 10 correct…
Wow! High score! Well done!
You either knows Chinese or is extremely observant!!
I am a social scientist. I am always observing my surroundings. The top ones were easy. but I think I missed the last three.
Yes, there is a slight change in one of the character in the last question and the last 2 requires knowledge of chinese … so yeah, well done!!
Just a quick question, what does social scientist do?
Five out of ten on this quiz.
Congrats! You passed!
This is not an easy quiz!
Good Job!
You are welcome. This quiz was great.
This is cute, thanks for making it in such way.
Thank you, I’m glad you tried and hopefully enjoyed the quiz 🙂
Hard quiz, but great. The Chinese language would never have been learned. You got 5 out of 10 right!
Lol, yes it’ll be harder if you don’t know Chinese, but still very much solvable with observation 🙂
Thank you for trying the quiz
Three quizzes like this again, I will definitely be good at writing in Chinese characters…
I enjoy it so much!
Lol, really? Then maybe I need to collect some fees … hahaha
That doesn’t matter, just send the bill to me in Javanese.
Damn then who will pay the bill or the translator? hahaha
Can be arranged in this way; I pay your fee and you pay me as a translator.
LOL, sound great!
That’s a win-win situation!
LOL, sound great!
That’s a win-win situation!
I have no idea what you wanted to show my dear friend
Hmm… it’s difficult to explain… it’s all in the cover picture.
A Chinese character is formed by different “parts” or “strokes” take the first row in the cover picture forming the character which means “interesting/interest”… it’s formed by 3 individual “parts” (words in this case).
You can think of each of the “parts” that joins up to form the character which means “interesting/interest” as alphabets. They just will be “piece together” to form a word. So you could think of one “part” as “A” another as “C” and then another as “E”, piece them up and you get “ACE”.
I just jumble up the “parts” and have you guessed how they would piece up. But because not everyone knows chinese characters, I make it so that you can count or observe the strokes (say direction and shape) to get the right answer. Just try to piece the individual “parts” in the boxes and you’ll get the answer.
6/10 here, you got me with more than a few. This was fun.
Wow! Didn’t expect such high score from non-chinese (and I assume didn’t know much characters)!
This game was played in game shows and some of the chinese couldn’t get them all right because well it does needs some visuals/assembling!
Round of applause!
Thank you, and no I know no characters in chinese. I can see why it became a game show, it was indeed fun.