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”
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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.
Continue reading “Word formation in Chinese”Formation of Compound words
Compound words account for about 80% of Chinese vocabulary. Learning compound words will accompany you all the time in the process of learning Chinese. Studying the formation of compound words will undoubtedly help you enlarge your Chinese vocabulary and understand the internal structure of Chinese words.
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