In Chinese, there are words that can combine with other words to modify their meanings or create new words. We call these words affixes. Don’t hesitate to build vocabulary with affixes because they really help to learn vocabulary rapidly. Continue reading “Build vocabulary with affixes”
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Character inclusiveness in Chinese compound words
Some two-morpheme (o two-character) compounds have a very interesting feature, character inclusiveness or morpheme inclusiveness. There are two types of character inclusiveness. Continue reading “Character inclusiveness in Chinese compound words”
Character formation in Chinese
As for the formation of Chinese characters, there are six different ways. Four of them are most important. Continue reading “Character formation in Chinese”
How Chinese components form phono-semantic characters?
Since most of the Chinese characters are 形声字 phono-semantic characters, it’s a major requisite to know how they are formed. Continue reading “How Chinese components form phono-semantic characters?”
Word formation in Chinese
As we have studied how Chinese characters are formed, we will study how Chinese words are formed in this post.
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