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    Chinese radicals are the basic building blocks of written Chinese. They form the components of characters, much like letters form English words. The document explains that understanding radicals allows more rapid learning of characters. It provides examples of how characters are decomposed into radicals and components. It also discusses how radicals can be used to create mnemonic devices for remembering characters. The Most Frequent Radicals WallChart displays radicals ordered by usage to provide a quick reference for identifying radicals when learning new characters.

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    Chinese radicals are the basic building blocks of written Chinese. They form the components of characters, much like letters form English words. The document explains that understanding radicals allows more rapid learning of characters. It provides examples of how characters are decomposed into radicals and components. It also discusses how radicals can be used to create mnemonic devices for remembering characters. The Most Frequent Radicals WallChart displays radicals ordered by usage to provide a quick reference for identifying radicals when learning new characters.

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    Chinese radicals are the basic building blocks of written Chinese. They form the components of characters, much like letters form English words. The document explains that understanding radicals allows more rapid learning of characters. It provides examples of how characters are decomposed into radicals and components. It also discusses how radicals can be used to create mnemonic devices for remembering characters. The Most Frequent Radicals WallChart displays radicals ordered by usage to provide a quick reference for identifying radicals when learning new characters.

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    Chinese radicals are the basic building blocks of written Chinese. They form the components of characters, much like letters form English words. The document explains that understanding radicals allows more rapid learning of characters. It provides examples of how characters are decomposed into radicals and components. It also discusses how radicals can be used to create mnemonic devices for remembering characters. The Most Frequent Radicals WallChart displays radicals ordered by usage to provide a quick reference for identifying radicals when learning new characters.

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    The key takeaways are that Chinese radicals are the basic building blocks of Chinese characters and knowing radicals makes learning characters easier.

    Chinese radicals are components that make up characters. Learning radicals allows us to decompose characters and aids rapid acquisition of the written language.

    We can use radicals to create mnemonic devices to help remember characters. Grouping radicals into images and stories makes memorization easier.

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    Having the Most Frequent Radicals WallChart on your wall gives you a quick
    reference to check for radicals whilst learning Chinese characters. When you are
    learning a new character try to break it down into its components and radicals.
    As you spend more and more time decomposing characters into radicals it will
    become second nature. The Most Frequent Radicals WallChart will help you get
    going with this progress and even later in your character education you can still use
    the wallchart to check on the rarer radicals.
    The Most Frequent Radical WallChart looks best when printed onto A3 paper but
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    What are Chinese radicals and why should I care?

    Chinese radicals are the basic building blocks of the written Chinese language.

    Chinese words are made up of Chinese characters; Chinese characters are
    made up of components. These components are made of radicals and other
    strokes. Knowing the radicals allows for a more rapid acquisition of the
    Chinese written language.

    For example the word (my) is composed of the characters and (I
    and the possessive particle ).
    The character has two components, and (white and spoon). The
    component . The component is made up of the radicals (wrap) and
    (dot).
    By knowing the radicals it is possible to decompose Chinese words, characters
    and components into radicals. Radicals are therefore the basic units of written
    Chinese, much like the letters of the alphabet are the basic unit of English
    words.

    Knowing these radicals can also be used in creating mnemonics, which are
    vitally important to memorizing Chinese words.

    In this case the component can be remembered as a dot of soup wrap-ed
    by the groove of a spoon.

    When the component is remembered it can be added to the component
    (made of the radicals and and with the meaning white) to made white
    spoon.
    White spoon would be used in a mnemonic to remember the idea of
    possession for instance thinking about a pauper whose only possession is a
    brilliant white spoon that he treasures more than anything.

    Your particular mnemonics will be based on what works for you. In general
    striking graphical images are easier to remember, as are mnemonics based on
    people are places you know yourself.
    Knowing the radicals though allow you to build up these stories in a consistent
    way because you will know the basic elements that make up all Chinese
    characters.


    How the Chart works:

    The radical chart contains the Kangxi radicals, ordered by usage frequency.
    The most frequently used begin in the top left of the chart and proceed to the
    right before moving to the next row. The top left is therefore the most
    frequently used and the bottom right the least frequently used.

    Each radical is accompanied by its pinyin pronunciation and English
    translation. Many of the radicals are also characters, often but not always with
    the same meaning and pronunciation.

    To the left of some of the radicals are the radical variants. Depending on the
    placement of the radical within a character its form sometimes changes.
    For instance (water) is written when at the left of a character. is
    written when at the bottom of a character.
    Having the Most Frequent Radicals WallChart on your wall gives you a quick
    reference to check for radicals whilst learning Chinese characters. When you are
    learning a new character try to break it down into its components and radicals.
    As you spend more and more time decomposing characters into radicals it will
    become second nature. The Most Frequent Radicals WallChart will help you get
    going with this progress and even later in your character education you can still use
    the wallchart to check on the rarer radicals.
    The Most Frequent Radical WallChart looks best when printed onto A3 paper but
    still works on A4.

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