Semantic-phonetic Characters The overwhelming majority of 90.0% of Chinese characters instead fall into the category of 形聲字 semantic-phonetic characters.
Logical-aggregate Characters In 會意字[huì yì zì] logical-aggregate characters, the meanings of the components are “added up” to indicate the meanings of the whole characters.
Compound Characters Apart from simple characters, other characters consist of more than one component, i.e., 合體字[hé tǐ zì] compound characters.
Simple Characters Chinese characters can be analyzed into one or more components 部件[bù jiàn]. The simplest case is those characters of only one component, i.e., 獨體字[dú tǐ zì] simple characters.
A Brief History of the Chinese Writing System The study of Chinese character components has traditionally played a role in teaching Chinese. Although the importance of the component has never been in question,
Chinese Character History The Chinese written system is ideographic. Each character is composed of a few differently shaped lines called “strokes” within an imaginary square.
Chinese Character Phonological Awareness It has been well established in the field of learning alphabetic languages like English that phonological skills of children are highly correlated with their ability to read.
