03．口部 mouth
口mouth蜜honey腹stomach剑sword During the Tan Dynasty唐朝 Emperor Tang Xuanzong唐玄宗 appointed Li Linfu李林甫 as the Prime minister. Li was...
02．艸【艹】部 grass
草straw船boat借borrow箭arrows 草船借箭is from a story from the Chinese novel The Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao曹操—Prime minister of the Wei State魏,...
01．水【氵氺】部 water
水water中in捞catch月the moon Once upon a time, there was a group of monkeys. One night they were sitting in a big tree admiring the moon. ...
100 Radicals according to their Frequency
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Radicals and their Relation to the Chinese Culture and Society
While the Chinese language developed along with Chinese society and culture, the characters, like graphic time-capsules, still reflect...
The Basic and Extended Meanings of a Radical
Originally, each radical was an integral character created to represent only one meaning. We refer to the original meaning of a radical...
Classifying Radicals by their Meanings
In the “Preface” section, we mentioned there are a total of 201 radicals in modern Chinese. The best way to memorize all 201 radicals is...
The Connections among Radicals, Integral Characters, and Compound Characters
Radicals are the orthographic units that compose compound characters. Once we have learned enough high frequency radicals, compound...
The Position of Radicals in Compound Characters
As stated above, radicals can appear in several different positions within a compound character. Below we have listed the common...
The Creation of New Radicals Based on Existing Radicals
In ancient times some radicals were createdby modifying existing radicals. For example, the radical 甘, which means sweet, was created by...
