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What are characters called when they have three of the same radical used?
I sometimes encounter characters like 鑫, which is made of three 金 radicals, or 龘, which is made of three 龍 radicals. What are they called and is there a reason for their existence? Ive tried looking ...
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Different first stroke forms of 月 (yuè)
There seem to be two different forms of the first stroke in 月 (yuè). When the character stands alone by itself ("moon"), then the stroke seems to bend to the left after going straight down, ...
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Can I always write the 艹 (grass radical) with three lines only?
The 艹 (grass radical) is present in for example 歡 and 貓 and 喵
In some fonts it's rendered as two separate crosses 十十， in some as one horizontal line with two vertical lines crossing it.
Can I always ...
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Question to radical (部首)"辵"
to my understanding a radical is the smallest character you can disassemble a word into (correct me if I`m wrong).
However the radical 辵 seems to be a combination out of two other radicals: 止 (in the ...
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Bottom component of 青 and 䏍
When learning how to write, I had always assumed that the lower component of the left component 䏍 of 能 was just a lower variant of 月. A couple of days ago, however, I decided to look it up, and I ...
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