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9月6日
辽太祖耶律阿保机去世。他率领契丹族建立了辽王朝。（926年）
共产党根据地之一——陕甘宁边区政府成立。（1937年）

Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.

niú

Search results for: words starting with 牛

lěng

Search results for: words starting with 冷

jí

Search results for: words starting with 吉

gē

Search results for: words starting with 哥

xún

Search results for: words starting with 寻

Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.

好好学习！

9月5日
在中国领土进行的日俄战争结束。（1905年）
汪精卫伪政权设立特务组织 “七十六号”。（1939年）

Sorry about the delay; I screwed up on the first ones this month. September 1-4 are now back in their proper place. Try out the new toolbar on these posts. Download it here.

Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.

shè

Search results for: words starting with 射

xiū

Search results for: words starting with 休

zá

Search results for: words starting with 杂

chǔ

Search results for: words starting with 础

jiù

Search results for: words starting with 旧

Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.

好好学习！

9月4日
复旦大学的前身——复旦公学创建并开学。（1905年）
孙中山组建北伐军。（1924年）

This morning we finished a little redo of our tool page to make it easier to find the gadget you need. There you can find an introduction and installation instructions for quick nciku, the little pagelet with dictionary search and text to speech; the MSN dictionary bot, your personal MSN Chinese dictionary; our website widget, to add a nciku search box to your site; and the new nciku toolbar which lets you take nciku with you around the web.

I would talk more about the new nciku toolbar, but you can find all of the details at the nciku toolbar page. Let us know what you think about it!

Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.

zhǐ

Search results for: words starting with 纸

jīng

Search results for: words starting with 惊

bài

Search results for: words starting with 败

bào

Search results for: words starting with 爆

zhé

Search results for: words starting with 折

Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.

好好学习！

9月3日
北伐军在武汉、南昌展开攻城战。（1926年）
中国军队收复福州。（1941年）

Learning Chinese characters is, in my opinion, the most time-consuming and difficult part of the language. Well, it’s not that difficult but it takes tons of dedication. Learning just a few new characters each day can break the seemingly impossible goal into bite-sized pieces. Every day I will post 5 new characters, each with a stroke order flash movie; pinyin with a link to the character’s page; and a link to search results including the character. The characters are loosely ordered by frequency.

léi

Search results for: words starting with 雷

xiù

Search results for: words starting with 秀

fù

Search results for: words starting with 附

jiǔ

Search results for: words starting with 九

kěn

Search results for: words starting with 肯

Note: Some additional pronunciations for 多音字 characters may be omitted.

好好学习！

9月2日
太平天国运动发生内乱，至此，中国近代史上最轰轰烈烈的农民起义由盛转衰。（1856年）
清朝政府废黜科举制，至此，这一历经了1300多年对中国社会影响深远的人才选拔考试制度退出了历史舞台。（1905年）