Chinese
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- Chinese Characters, Condensed The character cluster's doctrine: a character is one item with three links trained separately, components are classified by their function in each character,
- Empty Components 夫 is 大 plus one stroke. The extra stroke pictures nothing, carries no meaning, and cues no sound. It is there so that this word does not share a written form
- Form Components A form component is a part of a character that helps the character's meaning by depicting something, and it keeps that job after the modern strokes have
- How Chinese Characters Work Cluster hub: writing records speech, so each character connects a written form to a sound and a meaning. Classifying each component by the job it does in each
- Meaning Components A meaning component is a character part that carries an abstract extension of its own original, concrete sense. It does not draw the modern meaning of the
- Meaning Trees and Original Meanings A character's original meaning is the one sense its written shape was invented to picture. A meaning tree is a record of the character's senses, arranged from
- Sound Components A sound component is the part of a Chinese character that points to a range of syllables. It does not give the exact modern reading. Together with the meaning
- Sound Series A sound series is the set of every character built on one sound component. 批 pī contains 比 bǐ. The pinyin initials differ, so a learner often decides the two
- Surface vs Deep Structure Deep structure is the functional parse of a character: the parts that give sound or meaning inside that character. Surface structure is how the same character
- The IME Method The IME Method is a way to recall a Chinese character form that will not come while writing. The writer builds, from memory, the same candidate list a pinyin
- The Pipelining Strategy The Pipelining Strategy is a schedule for taking in new Chinese characters. A character has three parts: its sound, its meaning, and its written form. The
- Three Attributes of a Character For memory, a character is one stored item with three links: form to sound, form to meaning, and sound to meaning. Each link can fail on its own. Speech