3 Easy Steps to learn Chinese Characters Visually

Yes, it is true that there are only 3 easy steps to decode Chinese characters and remember their appearance.

It used to be that you have to treat every character that you encounter as brand new and decide how it could be decoded and remembered. This tedious process takes away a lot of the learners' time and energy.

qTRAILS Alphabets

With qTRAILS alphabets, it is just a matter of learning how to put them together to form a character. Character is formed by parts. Parts can be qTRAIL alphabets or strokes.

Learning the 240 qTRAILS alphabets is also easy, as there are only 32 stroke patterns. Each stroke pattern consists of 3 to 6 Chinese alphabets with the same stroke order.

8 Categories of qTRAILS

The 32 qTRAILS are classified into 8 categories:

1. Parallels

2. Dots

3. Perpendiculars

4. Intersections

5. Split & Cross

6. Marching & Tick

7. Flag, Frame & Skewer

8. Enclosure

See qTRAILS samples from these categories in Can Chinese characters be formed like English words?