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▲ Click ' CHINADAILY ' above to follow us C hineasy founder ShaoLan Hsueh is on a mission to break down the language barrier surrounding Chinese any way she can. She started with the book Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese , released in the US in 2014, which basically teaches the meaning of about 400 essential characters by encasing them in clever and often amusing illustrations (created by a team of artists at her headquarters in London). From there she dissects each one and reassembles it, demonstrating how the Chinese language is put together. Hao , the word for good, for instance, is a combination of the character for woman and boy, suggesting motherhood is a good thing. The term for eating is an open space representing a mouth and next to it the squiggle for begging. ShaoLan is convinced that Chinese is a lot easier than most people think and her goal
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