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Intermediate Mandarin Chinese: "Radical 言 (Yán)" with eChineseLearning

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Channel: eChineseLearning · 2018 · Education

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Teacher Iris helps an online student learn the important Chinese radical 言 (yán) in today's lesson. Curious about learning Chinese? To answer some of your questions, you can download our e-Book, "10 Things You Must Know Before Learning Chinese" with us here: https://goo.gl/KHtHnq
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Learning to write Chinese characters is excellent exercise for your brain and for your hand. Today, Teacher Iris introduces an important Chinese radical.

So, what exactly is a Chinese "radical"? 

Similar to how the English alphabet is organized into letters, Chinese writing is organized into "radicals". There are 214 different radicals, but some are rarely used. Radicals indicate what something is made of or how it looks. 

In Chinese, radicals are also used to find characters in a dictionary. You can first find the radical from the radical list. When you have found the radical you can count the remaining number of strokes in the character. Then, you can find the character using this information.
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As Chinese radical, "言 (yán)" is simplified into "讠" in a Chinese character. 

"言 (yán)" means "words, speech; speak, say". When it becomes a radical, the Chinese characters containing it are related to "language", "speaking", etc. 

The relevant Chinese characters contain:

说 (shuō) = speak
话(huà) = speech, talk
讨论 (tǎolùn) = discuss; talk over. 
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