[關於康熙部首03] The "atoms" of the Chinese written language
03 May 2014 [link youtube]
"...we can't always understand the character better by breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces; sometimes, instead, we have to put the atoms together into molecules, and figure out what the relationships between them might be."
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twice, look at the subtitles, read the transcript, the screen look like they follow exactly the symbol they have in common (shown on the lower crossroads. "kind of, sort of, maybe, sometimes". we can see that all three of them split this in the middle. with the glyph added in the middle providing image of the intersecting roads providing character, tòng, it will always have been a small street, lane or alley. illusion that the Chinese language makes a pattern, but still, on the whole, we can believe is a rule; and, again, the meaning has to you may be inclined to convince yourself that especially if you're learning Chinese in a words as possible before the next exam. the appealing symmetry of the glyph in the combined character as a whole. sound as if they're examples of the same rule, different patterns in how the language works, system of radicals. correct to break the word down into its smallest the bottom only makes sense in its combined smaller pieces makes less sense. is the "soft leather" radical, and the meaning any further about why the word is written don't worry about it". radical is actually a picture of two feet side of a box. two more feet added to the picture, for a does not represent an intersection of roads, on the left side of the screen, and the etymology as a whole that makes sense, not the individual the language, then the lesson to be learned as a molecule, gathering a few of those atoms making sense when we break them down into apparently, on patrol; so this pictograph "defense", and so on. at the top, that has its meaning only through nothing to do with leather (whereas, in fact, that are directly related to leather and animal have guessed this from the modern characters, of so many glyphs that are assembled the other as atoms rather than molecules. a third character that sounds like wéi: as in the language, a different version was preserved bottom of the screen) another meaning related added around the outside. to explain this third character as just being it would be even worse to dismiss questions people, "Don't worry about it, it's just phonetic". so often when we're rushing through Chinese wasn't a pattern at all, when we were looking two parts into one. we're looking at simple glyphs (consisting the character dān, it was probably something it". an ancient pictograph that is trying to depict be; and we can see from the more ancient form boxes at the top can't be separated from the what that symbol is supposed to resemble. you'll get pieces that don't relate to the for this one (Sears is the guy who scanned them on the internet, and it seems that this the soft-leather radical made more sense in through the combinations of dān to try to originally was. if he's correct, that doesn't mean that we phonetic" when it appears in other contexts, the symbol was borrowed from. a lot more plausible than any of the others it, you could basically go through the same to his conclusion. you can contrast their meanings, and try to the first purpose the pictograph was put to. is just that we can't always understand the smaller and smaller pieces; sometimes, instead, and figure out what relationships between some false etymologies (following this same and start to appear as facts. moons, side by side, and is part of the most as two moons, side by side, the ancient Chinese explanation for why the word is written this they tried the same trick we just used in of a cicada. two moons were originally two wings, in a "bird" that you can see here on the right. dictionaries, and some computer fonts try wings, in imitation of seal-script characters indicates that this just isn't true. but it certainly wasn't a pair of wings, either. there was actually a hint that the two wings combined bird character: the bird faces toward the wings to be positioned in front of its meaning of the character by looking at it out by breaking the modern symbol into smaller form of the symbol is depicting something to the logic presumed by the system of radicals: the atom, but the molecule. only way to know what a single symbol means or system involved; we just have observations are misleading, because the system of radicals they're used to define. is not phonetic at all; conversely, what sometimes characters visually, may be arbitrary and it, it's just phonetic", you might find it take some time to look into the real etymologies more to know than just that.
twice, look at the subtitles, read the transcript, the screen look like they follow exactly the symbol they have in common (shown on the lower crossroads. "kind of, sort of, maybe, sometimes". we can see that all three of them split this in the middle. with the glyph added in the middle providing image of the intersecting roads providing character, tòng, it will always have been a small street, lane or alley. illusion that the Chinese language makes a pattern, but still, on the whole, we can believe is a rule; and, again, the meaning has to you may be inclined to convince yourself that especially if you're learning Chinese in a words as possible before the next exam. the appealing symmetry of the glyph in the combined character as a whole. sound as if they're examples of the same rule, different patterns in how the language works, system of radicals. correct to break the word down into its smallest the bottom only makes sense in its combined smaller pieces makes less sense. is the "soft leather" radical, and the meaning any further about why the word is written don't worry about it". radical is actually a picture of two feet side of a box. two more feet added to the picture, for a does not represent an intersection of roads, on the left side of the screen, and the etymology as a whole that makes sense, not the individual the language, then the lesson to be learned as a molecule, gathering a few of those atoms making sense when we break them down into apparently, on patrol; so this pictograph "defense", and so on. at the top, that has its meaning only through nothing to do with leather (whereas, in fact, that are directly related to leather and animal have guessed this from the modern characters, of so many glyphs that are assembled the other as atoms rather than molecules. a third character that sounds like wéi: as in the language, a different version was preserved bottom of the screen) another meaning related added around the outside. to explain this third character as just being it would be even worse to dismiss questions people, "Don't worry about it, it's just phonetic". so often when we're rushing through Chinese wasn't a pattern at all, when we were looking two parts into one. we're looking at simple glyphs (consisting the character dān, it was probably something it". an ancient pictograph that is trying to depict be; and we can see from the more ancient form boxes at the top can't be separated from the what that symbol is supposed to resemble. you'll get pieces that don't relate to the for this one (Sears is the guy who scanned them on the internet, and it seems that this the soft-leather radical made more sense in through the combinations of dān to try to originally was. if he's correct, that doesn't mean that we phonetic" when it appears in other contexts, the symbol was borrowed from. a lot more plausible than any of the others it, you could basically go through the same to his conclusion. you can contrast their meanings, and try to the first purpose the pictograph was put to. is just that we can't always understand the smaller and smaller pieces; sometimes, instead, and figure out what relationships between some false etymologies (following this same and start to appear as facts. moons, side by side, and is part of the most as two moons, side by side, the ancient Chinese explanation for why the word is written this they tried the same trick we just used in of a cicada. two moons were originally two wings, in a "bird" that you can see here on the right. dictionaries, and some computer fonts try wings, in imitation of seal-script characters indicates that this just isn't true. but it certainly wasn't a pair of wings, either. there was actually a hint that the two wings combined bird character: the bird faces toward the wings to be positioned in front of its meaning of the character by looking at it out by breaking the modern symbol into smaller form of the symbol is depicting something to the logic presumed by the system of radicals: the atom, but the molecule. only way to know what a single symbol means or system involved; we just have observations are misleading, because the system of radicals they're used to define. is not phonetic at all; conversely, what sometimes characters visually, may be arbitrary and it, it's just phonetic", you might find it take some time to look into the real etymologies more to know than just that.