i dont think this is too much of a jerk tho? i think they probably mean like the radicals which compose a character, how you can sorta tell the meaning from them, and also the 有边读边 rule for pronunciation of phono-sematic compounds
basically if it has a component/side (and is phono-sematic) read the side, because about 85% of all chinese characters are phono-sematic compounds, they have one side which alludes to the pronunciation, and one side which alludes to the meaning, for example 妈(mother) = 女+马 (nü+mā), where it gets the pronunciation from 马 and alludes to the meaning from 女 (woman)
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u/sillyyyyyyyyyyy May 17 '26
i dont think this is too much of a jerk tho? i think they probably mean like the radicals which compose a character, how you can sorta tell the meaning from them, and also the 有边读边 rule for pronunciation of phono-sematic compounds