First 100 characters in less than an hour

This is not a click bait, you can indeed remember these 100 characters in no time (the meaning, not the pronunciation). For the first 20 characters you don’t need any knowledge of Chinese,. For advanced list that breaks characters down by etymology check this list TODO post link.

1) 一 (yī) – one [ Simple to understand, a single stripe equals 1]

2）二 (èr) – two [ Same сoncept as 1 ]

3) 三 (sān) – three [ Same concept as 1 and 2 ]

4) 亖 (sì)  – four (sadly, the modern form and the only form of this characters you’ll ever see is 四, which you can think of as a cube that has 4 edges if that helps)

5) 五 (wǔ) – five. Think of it as five lines, 一 in the top, then丨going down, 一 crossing the middle,丨going down, 一 horizontal line at the bottom.

6) 〇 (líng) – Zero. It is simple to remember, as it looks like the number zero. It is also written as 零.

) 十 – (shí) think of it as 2 sticks worth 5 overlapping each other.

) 人 (rén) – person. It depicts a picture of a walking person.

) 眾 (zhòng)

) 中 (zhōng) – middle. A line crossing rectangle in the middle. You might know this one from 中國 which is literally translated into the middle kingdom.

) 大 (dà) – big. A picture of a person with open arms.

) 上 (shàng) – above, on top.卜on top of the line

) 下 (xià) – below, under. 卜is located below the line

小 (xiǎo) – Small.

少 (shǎo) – Small amount. Think of it as “little in amount”, as it looks very similar to the character meaning “small”.

了 (le)

個 (gè)

買 (mǎi)

賣 (mài)

合 (hé)

別 (bié)

晚 (wǎn)

包 (bāo)

飯 (fàn)

反 (fǎn)

才 (cái)

子 (zi)

口 (kǒu) – Mouth. Easy to remember, as it is shaped like a mouth.

吃 (chī) – To eat. Easy to remember, as it resembles a person eating as depicted by this (insert image here)

乾 (gān) – Clean. Easy to remember as it has the same radical as to eat. Think of it as: if you can eat it, it is clean.

名 (míng) – Name

火 (huǒ) – Fire

女 (nǚ) – Female

好 (hǎo) Good.

安 (ān) Peace.

如 (rú)

他 (tā)

她 (tā)

你 (nǐ) – You.

你（nǐ) – You. female radical

木 (Mù) – Tree. Easy to remember as it looks like a tree.

本 (běn) – Book. Easy to remember, as it looks like a tree, and books are made of trees.

床 (chuáng) Bed.

坐 (zuò)

嗎 (ma)

父 (fù)

爸 (bà)

白 (bái)

勺 (sháo)

的 (de)

幾 (jǐ)

什 (shén)

麽 (me)

今 (jīn)

兒 (ér)

門 (mén)

們 (men)

力 (lì) – Strength

田 (tián) – Field. Is meant to resemble a rice patty, divided into sections.

男 (nán) – Male. Made up of 力 and 田, which would literally mean “strength of the field”, referring to men being farmers.

天 (tiān) – Sky.

東 (dōng)

西 (Xī)

要 (yào)

魚 (yú)

思 (sī)

心 (xīn) – Heart.

愛 (ài)

土 (tǔ)

也 (yě)

地 (dì)

日 (Rì)

月 (yuè)

明 (míng)

有 (yǒu)

水 (shuǐ)

冰 (bīng)

尿 (niào)

石 (shí)

右 (yòu) – Right. Think of ” The rock is always right ” as a phrase to remember this character.

雨 (yǔ)

雪 (xuě)

蟲 (chóng)

夕 (xī)

多 (duō)

玉 (yù)

王 (Wáng)

主 (zhǔ)

住 (zhù)

鳥 (niǎo)

山 (shān) – Mountain. Easy to remember due to its resemblance to a mountain. Think of the three strokes as mountains.

馬 (mǎ) – Horse. Easy to remember as it looks like it has 4 legs and a tail, like a horse.

花 (huā)

化 (huà)

目 (mù)

茶 (chá)

出 (chū) -To come out. Looks like it is coming out of the ground.

又 (yòu)

) 双 (shuāng) – A pair. Easy to remember, as there are only 2 radicals.

或 (huò)

國 (guó)

過 ( guò)

禍 (huò)

呼 (hū)

乎 (hū)

福 ()

府 (fǔ)

付 (fù)

禾 (hé)

和 (hé)