
62 - The building blocks of Chinese, part 3: Compound characters
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A vast majority of Chinese characters are compounds, and understanding how the components fit together and which function they have, will make learning and remembering characters a lot easier.
Link to article: The building blocks of Chinese, part 3: Compound characters
https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-chinese-characters/
Tags: #learnchinese #characters #compounds #sound #meaning
Link to articles about phonetic components: https://www.hackingchinese.com/phonetic-components-part-1-the-key-to-80-of-all-chinese-characters/
Link to my review of Outlier Linguistics dictionary and character course: https://www.hackingchinese.com/review-the-outlier-linguistics-dictionary-of-chinese-characters-with-discount-code/
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Music: "Traxis 1 ~ F. Benjamin" by Traxis, 2020 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
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