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https://www.hackingchinese.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/written-chinese-building-blocks-3.png27991839Learning to read and write Chinese is a daunting task, but the challenge becomes more manageable if you focus on learning the building blocks, learning how components form characters and how characters form words. This article is the first part in a series helping adult students make sens of Chinese characters.