Have you ever picked up a pen to write some characters, but you can't remember what look like?

    You're not alone. CCTV-10 started a show （call）Chinese Character Dictation Com-petition (《中国汉字听写大会》) last year. On the show, only three out of 10 adults (correct) wrote bingjiling (ice cream 冰激凌), and no one could  out penti (sneeze喷嚏). According to a survey, 94.1% of people said they had memory lapses (差错)  when writing some characters.

    It seems that Chinese characters are in Since the digital(数码) age began, fewer and fewer people use pens and paper. Most people now write Chinese on keyboards using pinyin. As  result, many people would forget the features特征 of a Chinese character, such as its structure and ( mean ) easily.

    Chinese characters are one of the world's ( old)written languages, dating back (追溯到) to 1100 BC. It's not only a way for us to record things, it's important to pass on Chinese culture. example, the character nan (male男) is made up of two parts , tian (farmland田) and li (strength力). We can tell from it that in the old times Chinese men were in charge of (负责) working on the farmland.