{"id":9328,"date":"2019-11-03T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/lesson-3-the-radicals\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:16:52","slug":"lesson-3-the-radicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/lesson-3-the-radicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 3 The radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">All chinese characters co<em><\/em>ntain a particular compo<em><\/em>nent called &quot;radical&quot; or &quot;side&quot;. this is the basic part of chinese character,These elements were o<em><\/em>nce characters themselves, but some are no lo<em><\/em>nger recognizable as such. Learning the radicals helps to categorize and memorize characters; if you know each radical,it&#8217;s easy for you write chinese character in the future. the presence of a certain radical can even suggest the meaning of the whole character, which often relates to the original form of the radical. On the other hand, the non-radical compo<em><\/em>nent of the character often suggests its pronounciation, or viceversa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em;\">Chinese dictio<em><\/em>naries co<em><\/em>ntain more than 200 radicals, but you will easily memorize the most common ones. In the following lessons we&#8217;ll present 60 radicals, each of them followed by three characters that co<em><\/em>ntain them, by compounds and notes on their use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Please note that the shape of a radical changes according to its position in the character, and that the same radical could well be found at the top of a character and on the left side of another: our examples couldn&#8217;t always show all of the possibilities. As for the<span>&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;\">pinyin<\/em><span>&nbsp;<\/span>trans<em><\/em>cription, we didn&#8217;t put the to<em><\/em>nes (pro<em><\/em>nounciation doesn&#8217;t really co<em><\/em>ncern us by now) nor the<span>&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;\">umlaut<\/em>s that certain syllables have.<\/p>\n<p>  <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"538\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd6742abcfd3.png\" alt=\"Lesson 3 The radicals\" \/><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"371\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd6742bd681d.png\" alt=\"Lesson 3 The radicals\" \/><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"543\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd6742d27754.png\" alt=\"Lesson 3 The radicals\" \/><br \/>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"207\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd6742e0c778.png\" alt=\"Lesson 3 The radicals\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1767759182\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All chinese characters contain a particular component called &quot;radical&quot; or &quot;side&quot;. this is the basic part of chinese character,These elements were once characters themselves, but some are no longer recognizable as such. Learning the radicals helps to categorize and memorize characters; if you know each radical,it&#8217;s easy for you write chinese character in the future. the presence of a certain radical can even suggest the meaning of the whole character, which often relates to the original form of the radical. On the other hand, the non-radical component of the character often suggests its pronounciation, or viceversa.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2840],"tags":[201,58],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","category-polular-word","tag-all-chinese-characters","tag-chinese-characters"],"views":259,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}