Here are your worksheets for Week 24 of My HSK Dictionary 3.
Our words this week:
(Click on each of the Chinese words below to take a look.)
讲 – to speak / to explain / to negotiate / to emphasise / to be particular about / as far as sth is concerned / speech / lecture
教 – to teach
脚 – foot / leg (of an animal or an object) / base (of an object) / classifier for kicks
角 – angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan
接 – to receive / to answer (the phone) / to meet or welcome sb / to connect / to catch / to join / to extend / to take one’s turn on duty / to take over for sb
Study
This week, we’re studying the word ‘to teach’. You might have noticed that the left side of the character is made up of two radicals. This is known as 会意 an associative compound or combined ideograph. In the 孝 character, the radical 老 ‘old’ and 子 ‘child’ show the meaning of the character. Here, the older person, shown with 老 educated the younger 子.
