Left-Side Radicals

Dating back to 2000 years ago during the Han dynasty, there was a scholar called 许慎(xǔ shèn) who edited and compiled a book called《说文解字》(Character Analysis) which is probably the oldest dictionary in China. He compiled a total of 9300 Chinese characters. During the process, he thought about how to sort them out so that it would be easy to find any character. Finally, he sorted by putting the characters that share the same component into the same group. These components are called as radical.

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Typing and Writing in Mandarin Chinese

It is true that writing Chinese characters is easier said than done. It takes plenty of determination and time to remember the character, the right order of strokes, its pronunciation and meaning. However, writing in Chinese is one of the four parts of Chinese language learning and also what makes up the Chinese language basics.

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