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    Chinese Character Semantics

    There exist 210 semantic components that are used for dictionary look-up and classification of characters, and each semantic component forms on

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    Compound Characters

    Apart from simple characters, other characters consist of more than one component, i.e., 合體字[hé tǐ zì] compound characters.

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    Learning the Characters by Components

    In the eighties, 蘇靜白 Su in 河北滄州 Cangzhou, Hebei suggested to organize the training of the characters systematically from simple to compound

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    Semantic-phonetic Characters

    The overwhelming majority of 90.0% of Chinese characters instead fall into the category of 形聲字 semantic-phonetic characters.