Wednesday February 02, 2022
Chinese is badly taught. First learn the kangxi radicals, then the pictograms and ideogramsthen the combined concept characters 会意字 only then start in on the pictophonetic characters. it's also a good idea toknow the six methods for forming charactersto understand that character components may be reused for different purposes (visual, phonetic, semantic) that characters since Song may use more than one method. Song script often transformed pictograms so they could be seen as ideograms as well. This is why 上 appears so often e.g. 虎 7 as in seven sharp teeth on high knowing proper stroke order helps to remember the charactersalso understand the characters are simplified and standardized stick figures which are seen from the top, side, or abovecharacter components are sometimes rotated 90 degrees 病 e.g.