Here are the chalenges posted on our Facebook page and Twitter feed during the past month. We have also started offering prizes (free Skritter time) for correct answers to our weekly character challenges.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Skritter/39198748555

Here are some of the challenges this month:

1) Which character does not belong in this group and why? 长、教、谢、都
(no correct answer yet given)

2) Guess what Chinese character can form words with: 感、相、正、应

3) Spot the incorrect character: 这孩子读书很甩功

4) Guess what character this is a mnemonic to: "add food to your mouth to give you power"? (by Skritter user aharlekyn)

If you follow our Facebook and Twitter accounts, you will get a chance to win free Skritter every week by answering challenges like those above.

Scroll down for the answers, but see if you can find the right answer before you peek!


























Answers:

These are our intended answers, but in some cases there are many acceptable answers.

1) No answer yet!

2) 反：反感、相反、反正、反应

3) 甩 -> 用

4) 加

If you want more, check the previous forum posts:

www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=5357943920787456
http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=4507200743538688
http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=2386542296
http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=1990493049
http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=1640592406
http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=1410719262

Could a possible answer to the first question be that 谢 is the only character with a single reading - xie4? The others are all 多音字.

长chang2/zhang3
教jiao4/jiao1
都dou1/du1

Yes, that was the intended answer! There may be other answers that are also correct, of course.