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How To Read Mandarin - Getting Up-Close and Personal With Chinese Characters
How To Read Mandarin - Getting Up-Close and Personal With Chinese Characters
by MICHAELCRUICKSHANK
Sound familiar?
Radicals
Pictograms
Ideograms
Pictophonetics
⼼
For instance, words with the heart radical xīn
generally refer to emotions or feelings, while something
⾦
with the gold radical jīn is likely some kind of metal
or element.