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Radical 163 Vs 170
What are the differences between these two radicals? What is etymology? Both represent same character or different?
⻖yì mound, abundant R170
⻏ fú city R163
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What is the difference between 嫐 and 嬲?
According to mdbg.net, both characters have a meaning of "to tease":
嬲
to tease / to disturb
嫐
to tease / to play around with
Are both of them primarily used as synonyms for "tease"? Or are they ...
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Why is 伴 used for buddy?
Is it true that 伴 comes from the word, 半(half) and thus can be interpreted as (significant other person)?
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Why does 写 not have a dot on top?
Many hanzi have a roof on top, including a dot. From the HSK2 list, we have:
客 家 字 完 室 安 它
The commonly used hanzi 写 is unlike these because it does not have a dot on top.
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Radical choice for 安全
A simple question, why does the lower half of 安全 (safe), have the female character: 女 ？
Is it implying that safety pertains only to females being secure? Or is there no such implication?
I'd like to ...
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Radicals vs glyph origins (specifically for character 肚 in 肚子)
I am trying to learn some vocabulary and am looking at the radicals to help me remember.
The problem is, the radicals in some characters don't seem to make sense to me at all. In 肚, the two radicals ...
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Why do cat (猫) and dog (狗) share the same 犭 radical?
I have noticed that a cat and dog share the same radical, which is 犭dog (quǎn).
So, if we break the words down:
猫 cat (māo) = 犭dog (quǎn) + 艹 cǎo (grass) + 田 tián (field)
狗 dog (gǒu) = 犭dog (quǎn) +...
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Should 屋 and 居 use radical 户 instead of 尸?
户 means home. So these examples are not suprising: 房 fáng (house), 扁 biǎn (flat), 扇 shàn (fan [mostly used indoor]), 扉 fēi (door)
尸 means corpse, and it looks like it refers to tail or something ...
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Why do some Chinese characters for animals not use the radical 犭?
why some Chinese words don't use the rule of prefix?
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When radicals make words does Chinese convey two layers of meaning all the time?
I can recognize and translate the 215 radicals. Now, I'm told radicals combine with each other and other characters to make words, and that some radicals denote sound for pronunciation of the word. ...
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Does the beta like character (as in 陳, 附 and many more) in Chinese have a special meaning?
It probably doesn't. I tried searching but couldn't find one.
But would be great if it does! Would help me remember so many new words. I hope somebody has figured out a pedagogical role of that ...
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Why is the radical of 难 > 隹 and not 又?
难 nan2, difficult; hard. Kangxi radical 172 隹.
My teacher says the radical for this character is 又 but the dictionary says clearly it's 隹.
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Semantic radical and dictionary header for 将
The Unihan standard, just like virtually every online dictionary, lists 寸 as the 部首 for 将.
The 部首归部 reference published in 2009 (http://www.moe.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/s230/201001/...
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Dog radical (犭) for non-Han ethnic groups
As far as I understand, the dog radical (犭) was used for all non-Han ethnic groups before the Chinese Communist Party took power on the mainland. Is there truth to that? If so:
Why did the CCP stop ...
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What was this online dictionary's name with ancient traditional and simplified characters and glyph origins? [duplicate]
I once found a Mandarin Chinese dictionary which for each character listed the ancient, the traditional and the simplified Chinese characters. For each it described its meaning and how it developed ...
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