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Chinese / Year 9 and 10 / Understanding / Systems of language
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Relate prior knowledge of character form and function to infer information about the sound and meaning of unfamiliar characters (ACLCHU075)
Elaborations
- identifying familiar components and characters in different fonts and handwriting, including calligraphy and cursive forms of handwriting
- describing orthographic features of new characters encountered, including the structure, sequence and relationship of components, and explaining connections evident between form, sound and meaning
- recognising that characters may have multiple sounds (i.e. 多音字) and multiple meanings
- identifying the meanings of abbreviations, and analysing examples of abbreviations alongside their original forms to identify the ways in which abbreviations are formed in Chinese
- examining and explaining the relationships between characters and word meanings when encountering new vocabulary
- recognising commonly seen prefixes and suffixes (including 老，子，儿) and identifying the functions of the words
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Morphemes, Chinese languages, Chinese characters