Using Colours to Learn Chinese

If a Chinese character is presented in a single colour, often the colour used is black. There is very little information that we can extract from the character.

When colours are used intentionally to distinguish the parts in a character, a lot more visual details is evident at at glance.

1. Use Colours to Learn Stroke Order of qTRAILS Alphabets

See how the sequence of strokes in a qTRAIL alphabet can be shown through colours. The strokes in an alphabet are written in this order: red, yellow, blue, green, orange then purple. Compare the alphabets shown in black and in this colour code.

2. Use Colours to Learn Part Order of Chinese Characters

See how the sequence of parts in a Chinese character can be shown through colours. The parts in a character are written in this order: pink, white, blue, yellow, purple then green. Compare the characters shown in black and in this colour code.

More Visual Details At a Glance

3. Bond Points and Cross Points

in the characters are obvious when strokes are coloured. See the three examples below:

4. Nuances between similar-looking characters

will stand out in colours.

5. Distortion of a part

will not go unnoticed when the characters are shown in colours