The best thing I've found for learning characters is the Outlier dictionary, available in the Pleco app. It breaks characters down into actual functional components (often a sound and a meaning component), as opposed to radicals, which are not useful. Radicals were invented for arranging characters in a physical dictionary (since pinyin didn't exist yet, there was no "alphabetical" order), and have no use beyond that. Sometimes functional components happen to be "radicals", but sometimes not.
I think its really cool the way you explained it, I'm learning chinese and I'm learining to be a teacher too. For me your "hack" is really useful but as a compliment. Thanks a lot for the information :)
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The best thing I've found for learning characters is the Outlier dictionary, available in the Pleco app. It breaks characters down into actual functional components (often a sound and a meaning component), as opposed to radicals, which are not useful. Radicals were invented for arranging characters in a physical dictionary (since pinyin didn't exist yet, there was no "alphabetical" order), and have no use beyond that. Sometimes functional components happen to be "radicals", but sometimes not.
so you recommend learning the functional components of a character rather than the radicals in it?
@ Yes.
I think its really cool the way you explained it, I'm learning chinese and I'm learining to be a teacher too.
For me your "hack" is really useful but as a compliment.
Thanks a lot for the information :)
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Trying to deduce the meaning from radicals is futile. I've tried that long enough
Partially agree, that's why my approach was different: I use radicals to memorise characters as a core.
Its not deducing, its imagining it