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Currently viewing the tag: "Radicals"
This is a list of the 100 most common radicals among the 2000 most common characters, meaning that it’s excellent for beginners who want to boost their understanding of Chinese characters. The list contains simplified, traditional, variants, meaning, pronunciation, examples, helpful comments and colloquial names.
Learning to read Chinese requires intimate knowledge of individual characters (rather than words), not only because it allows us to decipher and guess the meaning of words we haven’t seen before, but also because it is necessary to understand the building blocks if we are to use mnemonics to remember a character.
If you plan to learn to read or write Chinese, you will need to learn parts of characters (components) and parts of words (characters). There are an untold number of combinations of these, and if you only study these it will be impossible. This would be a little bit like learning maths by studying thousands of examples, but never actually looking at the underlying equations.
