Analytical approach to learning Chinese characters.

When we analyze something we better understand and quickly memorize it. The same is with the learning Chinese characters. When we see and understand what radicals and components the character consists of, our mind does not resist to absorbing this information. We easily learn what we understand. If we do not understand the structure of a character, then we need to spend hours and days writing and writing this character.

Let us analyze the Chinese character去  qù go

去  qù go        

土  tǔ earth

十  shí ten

一  yī one

丨  gǔn line

一  yī one

厶 sī private   

土十一丨一厶

Now the character去 looks more familiar to us, doesn’t it?

More information and guidelines on decomposition you can find in each Chinese textbook by Polina Shinkina on http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/polina985

and in the The Chinese Character Decomposition Guidance

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