palefirewax

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   by palefirewax 6y ago

   That's why I said it's partly phonetic. From the perspective of language learning I think it's extremely helpful to be able to intuit from the phonetic component that they will sound similar. I would also say that the tonal p
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   by palefirewax 6y ago

   Most hanzi in Mandarin are partly phonetic. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Phono-seman... . It's generally not based on radical, but on the so called phonetic component. See say 元, 远, 园, 院.
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   by palefirewax 6y ago

   When I was working at Boeing, my boss who was around during those times gave this anecdote. Apparently in return for being allowed to build the 777, the city of Everett (maybe it was Renton or the state of Washington) demanded large amounts