Open your mouth as wide as possible until it's square. You get a mouth.
把你的嘴张得越大越好,直到变成正方形。这就是一个“口”字。
This is a person going for a walk. Person.
这是一个人正在散步。“人”字。
If the shape of the fire is a person with two arms on both sides,
“火”字的形状就是一个人在两边有两只胳膊,
as if she was yelling frantically, "Help! I'm on fire!"
好像她正在大喊大叫:“救命啊!我着火了!”
This symbol actually is originally from the shape of the flame,
实际上,这符号最初来自于火苗的形状,
but I like to think that way. Whichever works for you.
但是我喜欢那方法。大家随便选。
This is a tree. Tree. This is a mountain.
这是一棵树木。“木”。这是一座"山”。
The sun. The moon. The symbol of the door looks like a pair of saloon doors in the wild west.
“日”。“月”。“門”的符号,就像狂野西部片里轿车上的一对门。
I call these eight characters radicals.
我称这八个字为基本字,
They are the building blocks for you to create lots more characters.
它们是一堆组件,以创造出很多其他的字。
A person. If someone walks behind, that is "to follow."
一个“人”。如果另一个人走在后面,意思就是“跟随”。
As the old saying goes, two is company, three is a crowd.
有句谚语,二人为从,三人为众。
If a person stretched their arms wide, this person is saying, "It was this big."
如果有个人打开双臂,这个人说:“它有这么大。”
The person inside the mouth, the person is trapped.
把“人”放在“口”里,这个人被困住了。
He's a prisoner, just like Jonah inside the whale.
他就变成了“囚”徒,就像约拿被困在鲸鱼肚子里。