Chinese characters

• 天（tiān, sky;day）：This character originally means the top of one’s head. It is used to refer to the sky or heaven that is above one’s head. Now, it also means “day”.
• 月（yuè, moon）：This character is derived from a picture of the moon.
• 上（shàng, above）：Originally, this character was composed of a short line and a longer horizontal line. The horizontal line of this character represents the horizon. The short line is above the horizontal line, which means something is above the horizon.
• 下（xià, below）：The opposite meaning of 上（shàng, above）.

After learning this video, you can write these characters as their order in the worksheet to help you better understand what you have learned.