Chines characters “up” and “down”
Statics show there are about … well… several thousands Chinese charaters, for daily use, just 2,000 – 3,000 would be just fine. And among them, some are vital as keyword, some are not somefrequently used.
In this picture, at the very beginning, the shorter stroke above the longer one is an indication of something above the horizon, and that was the original meaning of “above” or “upward”. Pronunciation in
mandarin is “shang 4″.
If we know the previous one, this time it should be easy. this character stands for “below” or “beneath”. Its pronunciation is “Xia 4″
These two Chinese characters are everyday use, not only in positioning but also, like a very thick book, in 2 volumes, we would like to arrange them in this way:
This the LEFT in Chinese, as we can see, at the beginning, it stands for the left hand. “Zuo 3″
And opposite to the left is RIGHT. “You 4″
Now, if we can put these four characters together, it means everywhere.
