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What are characters called when they have three of the same radical used?
maybe, called “三疊字”, have a look of this page
10個少見「三疊字」 你識唔識讀？
btw, the wiki page:
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/三叠字
have fun :)
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i checked a book in literary chinese, it was called “三字”. a ...
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Different first stroke forms of 月 (yuè)
It's common for components to be drawn is multiple ways depending on their location in the characters. Compare 朋 阴 望 嬴 with 有 肓 育 肯 脊. Perhaps this distinction is more apparent when 衣 is used in ...
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Are there any tools for combining multiple radicals into a single character?
The closest thing I can think of 字统 is https://zi.tools. (There's also 字海 http://www.yedict.com which you cannot search Ideographic Description Character sequence and GlyphWiki which I trust much less....
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I am trying to understand 写
I looked it up in the Outlier Mini Traditional Characters dictionary (OTC) in Pleco. I also checked using Wiktionary.
For questions of etymology / character origin, you'll need to consider ...
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Is there a connection between right (direction) and the 'stone' radical?
the character “右” & “石” just look similar in regular script, do not fixate on it.
both characters in oracle bone script, and bronze script are significantly different:
https://humanum.arts.cuhk....
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Are there any tools for combining multiple radicals into a single character?
The Chinese Character Wiki has a function called Mutant character builder, which can create things like:
You input whatever components you want, and can shift and stretch them, and it gives you the ...
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I am trying to understand 写
There is absolutely nothing wrong with interest in etymology, I often find myself looking into such things like the source of terms. Please note that such things are often only theorized and will not ...
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What is the procedure for typing cangjie here?
You may want to check out this site for ChangJie input method.
Here is a diagram of key->character fragment correspondence from the aforementioned site.
Once you have memorized the table, the next ...
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Different first stroke forms of 月 (yuè)
Is this an important and necessary distinction, or would it also be
correct to write 有 with the thinning out, bent first stroke, like in
月? And would it be correct to write 月 without bend and thinning ...
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Different first stroke forms of 月 (yuè)
The first stroke of 月 is actually 撇(丿, pie), while the third stroke of 有 is 竖(丨, shu) in fact. If you want to learn standard Chinese, don't mess them up.
But at the same time, I've seen some ...
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I am trying to understand 写
写 is the simplified form of the character, and simplified characters often have no relation whatsoever to etymology. (This is why Chineseteacher_Henry's answer is wrong, the simplified form has ...
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I am trying to understand 写
Etymology can help you understand and comprehend Chinese characters, but not every character follows its etymology. Additionally, there are many simplified characters that are quite different from ...
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