Comments on: Shapeshifting Chinese characters https://www.hackingchinese.com/shapeshifting-chinese-characters/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sat, 04 May 2024 21:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/shapeshifting-chinese-characters/#comment-119720 Sat, 04 May 2024 21:32:40 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=17404#comment-119720 In reply to Ng E-Ching.

No, I think I meant what I wrote, but I can see that it’s not worded very clearly! I think that most native speakers think of 彳 as 双人旁, and that very few would connect it to 行. Obviously, they know that the left part of 行 is also 彳, but I meant that the connection from 彳 to 行 is not something the average person knows. Does that make what I meant clearer? I changed that part of the sentence to “most native speakers don’t know that 彳 is unrelated to 亻”, which is more consistent with how the other examples are treated and in practice means the same thing.

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By: Ng E-Ching https://www.hackingchinese.com/shapeshifting-chinese-characters/#comment-119689 Fri, 03 May 2024 23:03:52 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=17404#comment-119689 Interesting article! I think there might be a typo here: “most native speakers don’t know that 彳 is in fact the left half of 行”. Based on context, do you mean “is NOT in fact”?

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