Questions tagged [character-components]
Questions about phonetic, semantic, or other components of characters.
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Why is there an 'ear' radical in the character for smell? 闻 聞
Why is there an 'ear' radical in the character for smell? 闻 聞
I find this pretty confusing. Perhaps there is a fun story behind it?
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Character Components-vs-Simple Characters 成字部和独体字是同一吗？
Is there are any "Character Components" and "Simple Characters"?
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What resources can I use for learning character decomposition?
I'm developing a set of tools meant to aid in learning Chinese characters and I realized that I don't know a good dataset containing character decomposition. Ideally it should be comprehensive (or ...
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How to understand “ideographic” decomposition of characters like 不 and 与
I was recommended "character decomposition database" on this site.
I have started to explore it and found, that some decompositions I don't understand, like
U+4E0D 不 ⿱一③
U+4E0E 与 ⿹②一[GTKV] ⿻②...
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What is the meaning of 刚 in 变形金刚?
I came across the word 变形金刚 in a short children's story that I read and Pleco dictionary states that it refers to either shape-shifting warriors protecting the Buddha, or Transformers (which Google ...
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Chinese character decomposition
I found that many (most?) of chinese charaters look like composed of more primitive ones, like
做 ＝ 亻十口夂
你 ＝ 亻尔
吃 ＝ 卩乙
and so on.
I this a real phenomenon or just my europeen imagination?
If it ...
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What is the relation between 寨 (zhài, “stockade, stronghold, fort”) and 塞 (sài, “place of strategic importance; pass; fortress”)?
Most dictionaries say 寨 = 塞 + 木, but on its face, we could just as easily have 塞 = 寨 + 土.
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How do I know whether to write the written character or printed character?
I'm often finding differences in the printed form of the character than the written form, and I'm not sure which one to use. For example, in 窗, the typed character sometimes contains legs 儿, but the ...
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What's the relationship between 暖, 爱 and 愛?
I was curious when I noticed that 暖 contains the character 爱, so I thought that in the traditional form, it would have 愛, the traditional form of 爱. But it appears that 暖 has the same form in both ...
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What’s the difference between 円 and 月 as character components?
What’s the difference between 円 and 月 as character components?
If we look at 青 and 靑.
The bottom of 青 is:
月
and if we look at 靑, it's bottom is:
円
靑 is said to be an 异体字 of 青 and zisea says ...
