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Kapittel 05 Combined characters (2)- Pictophonetic characters
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xíng shēng• Pictophonetic characters ( 形 声 - "form and
sound")are one category of combined characters.
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• A Pictophonetic character is made up of two parts: "semantic part" (indicating meaning of the character) and "phonetic part" (indicating the pronunciation of the character )
Semantic phonetic Pictophonetic character
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• 90% of Chinese characters are pictophonetic characters. Although their amount is quite big, they are not difficult to understand and pronounce if we are familiar with the basic independent characters(pictograms & simple ideograms).
semantic phonetic Pictophonetic character
Char. Meaning Char. Pron. Char.
Pron. Meaning
氵 water +
木 mù =沐 mù to wash one’s hair
氵 water +
林 lín =淋 lín to pour
艹 grass +
采 cǎi =菜 cài vegetable
艹 grass +
牙 yá =芽 yá bud
木 wood +
乔 qiáo =桥 qiáo bridge
日 sun +
青 qīnɡ =晴 qínɡ sunny
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• The development of Chinese language is complicated. Some characters has changed their pronunciations developments. So we can find out that the phonetic part of a character doesn't represent the exact pronunciation of the character.
semantic part phonetic part Pictophonetic character
Char. Meaning Char. Pron. Char.
Pron. Meaning
speech + jǐng = jiǎng to talk, to speak
fire + yīn = yān smoke
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zhǐ指 to point, to indicate; finger
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cái财 wealth
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jiǎng 讲 to talk, to
speak
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jìn近 near
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mào帽 hat,cap
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pá爬
crawl,climb
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yān烟
smoke
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Takk for i dag!