Learning hanzi (Chinese characters) can be hard for foreigners and even for young Chinese. The good news is that Chinese Character Origin Cards (字源卡) can make learning and fun.
The pictures make the 108 Chinese characters such as ren (person) and niao (bird) come alive(活的) right in front of our eyes. They tell us how the characters became they look like today from the oracle bone inscriptions (甲骨文).This may sound strange, but it's just what the cards promise their users.
Richard Sears, a 70-year-old American man, is really interested in Chinese characters. Chinese people call him Uncle Hanzi for he (study) them for about 20 years. He and Shiwangme, accompany in Nanjing, worked together (make) the cards. They used both 2D animation and3D AR to show the evolution (演变) of Chinese characters in a right way.
We are going to make more cards, with 324 hanzi in all," "said Uncle Hanzi. This will be for Chinese learners around the world. His team will also put out the cards in more languages. And the Eng1lish version will come out soon.
