Structures of Chinese Characters - Components, Radicals, and Strokes 汉字的结构：偏旁，部首和笔画

How are Chinese characters made up? By components and radicals. What's the relationship between them? Can radicals predict the meaning of the character? This video is an introduction to answering these questions.
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[@mikedaniels3009]

You deserve 1million clicks for this presentation. Thanks
Just for kicks, here's is 1 million dollar quiz question(if I had it😁😁😁):
Who knows WHY 狂 kuang, crazy, is made of the dog(animal radical) and 王, wáng = King? By the same token, why is 船，chuán, written with
舟 & 八＆口？
Look forward to your answers.

[@chinsiongcheung4815]

For the boat character: it is obvious that the désigner of the Chinese characters were descendants of those who were scattered on the surface of the earth after God counfounded the builders of the Tower of Babel; see in the first bookk of the Bible Genesis , chapter 11.
Thus they knew the story of Noah ( Genesis chapters 5,6-9) and how God told him to build the 1st boat to save his family and the animals before God would send the great déluge to wife away all sinful men.
We'll Noah had 3 sons and each one had their wife; Noah+ wife;Shem+wife;Ham+wife;Japheth+wife =8 persons were the passengers of The First Boat of the World.
That's why boat has the radical " container/vessel" on the left + eight (8 mouths representing by extension the idea of 8 persons) on top right and mouths ( bottom right) which explained the radicals components of chuan/ boat.

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This is so far the best video about hanzi writing! Thanks!

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What I liked is the way the presenter laughs and presents some unexpected corner if the journey.😀

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Excellent! Just what I was looking for.
Thank you

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wow this was such a great and helpful video! thank you so much!!

[@madi_beee]

This was great, thanks!

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Thank you so much! This helps a lot

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永 。 谢谢老师

[@limedwardster]

. For foreigners, using two L 7, to form 口，then try to write 曰 目白 由早 四回西 胃旧申...，then filled up to form 吕,串，石，check handphone software, using voice inputs together。
for 出 ，to write using two u, u and l,to form 出 凹
巾帼 离 山 巨 叵 匠 臣 革If forget use voice input

[@bonbonpony]

05:44 Where can one find such an exhaustive list of all Chinese radicals along with their meanings?
Is there a similar list somewhere for the phonetic parts?

[@pandaknowslinguistics8162]

xh.5156edu.com/bs.html

[@youwatch1995]

I'm using google translator and gboard with pinyin feature to get its meanings

[@morejoy5188]

good。

[@user-ti7pc2cs6j]

I would like to know the one standing before 页 of this word 颐 because it does not exist in any of you have told and I'm curious about its meaning and pronunciation. Moreover, why does not it exist in any of what you have mentioned?

[@curtpiazza1688]

👍!

[@bonbonpony]

07:56 So this word for "spider" has really nothing to do with the meanings of "to know" and "red", because these characters are there only for their sound, right? The only part related to spiders in any way is that "insect" radical?

[@pandaknowslinguistics8162]

Correct!

[@cylim4433]

Sick

[@QuizmasterLaw]

how did shui3 become yong? what's the logic of putting the dot on top to make water into eternity?

[@franzpeters3824]

fountain of youth. ;-)

[@pandaknowslinguistics8162]

Not every part of every character represents meaning. Some are phonetic components and some are lost in history. Check out my character creation video for more details!

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心 radical

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言 radical

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人 radical

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食 radical

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快筆國同品

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犬 radical

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艸 radical
草 radical

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快筆國品

[@patrickvangelder3349]

it clearly demonstrates the limits of this writing system , it is too rigid, now you're stuck with an insect character for spiders...

[@theophonchana5025]

病 radical