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Questions about Chinese characters, called Hanzi.

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Can one learn to comprehend Chinese texts while being unable to read aloud?

One fundamental problem, though, is that in modern Chinese, the majority of words are made up of two characters. … Knowing the meaning of the characters is not enough to comprehend texts. One reason for this is that characters have multiple meanings. …
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What is the glyph origin of '奇'?

According to the 漢語大字典, which has a graphic of the character in various scripts, in some earlier versions the top element of 奇 is written as 立 ‘to stand’. It further cites an early analysis from the …
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