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I've never heard this term "Character Amnesia" but its an analogue to my situation. I can read and write (via pinyin) a large number of characters, but cannot

I've never heard this term "Character Amnesia" but its an analogue to my situation. I can read and write (via pinyin) a large number of characters, but cannot recollect their shape in abstraction. I think that's just because as a foreigner learning chinese in the modern world I've never had to learn this skill. The difference between Recollection and Recognition.

gurkendoktor 10y ago
Same here - and strangely enough, it's rarely a problem. Faking characters by using the correct radical and a random homophone base character works okay in a pinch. But because I never write characters by hand, I have a really hard time reading handwritten notes, and that is a problem.