Questions tagged [character-components]
Questions about phonetic, semantic, or other components of characters.
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If 冬 in itself means winter, why add 天?
If 冬 in itself means winter, do adding 天 Impact the meaning, or perhaps refer to winter time instead of the season itself? Or is it because 冬 is monosyllabic and 冬天 has two syllables?
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What's the meaning of the hat like character on top of 尔
According to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%94#Chinese
It is
this character https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%BA%88
It simply means knife but the wiktionary entry is very short.
Google ...
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What does 尔 really mean?
That character is the right part of 你 nu, which means you.
According to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%94 it means you. It reads er
According to http://zhongwen.com/bushou.htm I saw this
So ...
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How do I understand Ni (you) character correctly?
It says
http://zhongwen.com/bushou.htm
If I search for you I got this
It consists of 2 characters
The first is person and you. The 2 characters are very different than the character in character ...
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Chinese character dictionary with radicals
Is there a Chinese dictionary which lists all Chinese characters together with the radicals they are composed of, as well as their positions?
For example, for the character 她, I'd expect something ...
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“Pixelating” the character 英
I would like to include a Chinese character (英) in a knitting pattern. To do so, I need to "pixelate" the character.
Is this an acceptable representation of the character and is it easily ...
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Is the visual similarity of the simplifications 華→华 and 畢→毕 a coincidence?
華 and 畢 are very similar, the bottom is the same, and only the top 4/5 of their strokes differ.
Their simplifications 华 and 毕 are also similar, the bottom and the top rights are the same and, and the ...
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What does “GHTJK” stand for in this part of a Wiktionary: entry: “…composition ⿸丆卜(GHTJK) or ⿻丆”
I generally understand the Ideographic Description Characters (IDSes) and the Ideographic Description Sequences,for CJK strokes and components but the abbreviation GHTJK in this entry and GHTK in ...
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Why is there an 'ear' component 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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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 ...
