太阳tàiyángsun
- Theme
- Nature
- Level
- HSK 3
- Strokes
- 10
- Characters
- 2
How 太阳 is written
Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.
Examples
太阳出来了。
Tàiyáng chū lái le.
The sun has come out.
- 太阳tàiyángsun
- 出chūto go out
- 来láito come
- 了lecompleted action marker
早上的太阳很好看。
Zǎoshàng de tàiyáng hěn hǎo kàn.
The morning sun is lovely.
- 早上zǎoshàngmorning
- 的depossessive particle
- 太阳tàiyángsun
- 很hěnvery
- 好hǎogood
- 看kànto look; to read
Not to be confused with
Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.
- 阳光
- 太太
- 阳台