How do Chinese characters work?
What’s a good way to understand the complex system of how Chinese characters actually work? Design it from the ground up using English as a starting point.
If English was written like Chinese
This article does a fantastic job of explaining not only how written Chinese works, but describes the logic behind it. The article covers everything from pictographs to radicals to homophones to the incorporation of foreign words. Rather than going through the, admittedly esoteric, process of introducing the reader to actual Chinese characters; English is translated into a character based writing system.
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