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Questions about Chinese characters, called Hanzi.

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Why do some Chinese characters look like western ones? [closed]

I am learning Chinese and met few characters, which are looking like western characters with similar pronunciation. …
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3 votes
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How can it be single characters for new chemical elements like 鈽 and 鈾?

Does this means, that chinese people can invent new characters nowadays? …
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0 votes
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Where to find animation for character 阝?

I seel only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_170 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_163 with (traditional?) version animated. Many sites don't know this characted at all. And others don't g …
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Ambiguous characters

I found some characters, that look extremely similar to each other, like Character Pronunciation Meaning 士 shi4 scholar/warrior/knight 土 tu3 earth/dust Character Pronunciation Meaning …
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My dictionary shows 说 is both shuì and shuō

I have installed Chinese character dictionary popup plugin into the browser and it showed for 说 character: 说 說 shuì to persuade 说 說 shuō to speak; to say; to explain; to scold; to tell …
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3 votes
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"Banking" alternatives for digit characters?

I heard, that there are more complex "banking" alternatives for digit characters: 一二三四五六七八九十 provided in order to fraud protect. Is this true and how can I find a table for them? …
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Chinese characters picture dictionary / mnemonics?

Are there any commonly used dictionaries of picture (mnemonic) representation of chinese characters? …
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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] ⿻ …
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Chinese character decomposition

Chinese characters look like they're 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 European imagination? If it is not real then why? …
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