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Posts tagged Phonetic Component from the Hanzi Write Practice team.

Ink-wash mountains and pavilions with cranes in flight under the calligraphy 山水清音, illustrating an app that highlights the phonetic component of a character first then draws it
Playbooks

An App That Highlights the Phonetic Component First

Want an app that highlights a character's phonetic component before you draw it? Decoding the parts first makes dense characters learnable. Here is how it helps.

Lawrence Arya··5 min
Chinese ink painting of a scholar crossing a stone bridge beneath the calligraphy 學而時習不亦說乎, illustrating which part of a character hints at its sound
Research

Which Part of a Character Hints at Its Sound?

Most Chinese characters carry a clue to their pronunciation, not in a single stroke but in a phonetic component. Here is how to spot it, and why writing reveals it.

Lawrence Arya··5 min