Chinese Phonetic Characters - By Teacher Béttio

This is a very interesting video, which gives you a clue about discovering how to read a given character by only knowing its phonetic component.

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[Bettiobrazil]

Thank you for your interest. Well, on this video you can identify the phonetic component by seeing the parts that repeat in the next character. There are 214 Semantic Radicals and around 900 phonetic components. I´m developing a Phonetic Chinese Dictionary which is organized by phonetic components and alphabetic order. 不客气

[CDEbFGAbB]

@Bettiobrazil I think I start to understand. Summarizing it in a simple way the phonetic component gives you the way it sounds and the radical gives you the meaning. Comparing it to the pinyin it's like the letters are the phonetic component and the tone is the radical. Saying it otherwise the radical gives you the tone and the phonetic component is the letters you have to pronounce. I understand there is more than meets the eye and that there are nuances to this. I'm sending you an e-mail.

[Bettiobrazil]

@CDEbFGAbB (Comparing it to the pinyin it's like the letters are the phonetic component and the tone is the radical. Saying it otherwise the radical gives you the tone and the phonetic component is the letters you have to pronounce.) This is an incorrect thinking, you misundestood it my dear friend.

[Bettiobrazil]

@CDEbFGAbB The pinyin are the letters for the pronunciation of the characters. The radical DOESN´T give the tone BUT The Category Meaning of the characters and the phonetic components give you the pronunciation of the characters. Most of times, the phonetic component comes on the right side of the character, whereas the left sided component is the semantic one giving you the generic or categoric meaning.

[Bettiobrazil]

@CDEbFGAbB The radical is like a part that gives you the species of words that caracter belongs to, for example, for words with the category of liquids we use the water radical, and the radical is used to write characters like, tear, drop, stream, lagoon and the likes.

[PeeteyP]

Interesting. This can be a powerful way to quickly learn a lot of characters. Where did u get this video? is there a book that goes with it?

[Bettiobrazil]

@PeeteyP See also my video The 87 FU Chinese Characters -Phonetic Components.wmv

[CDEbFGAbB]

Dear Bettio. Thanks for this vid. I have some questions: How could I know which is the fonetic part? How many fonetic characters and syllables exist? And how many radicals too? Xiè xiè.

[Bettiobrazil]

I made this video. I did a lot of researches on the Internet, and then I discovered that 90% of all the Chinese characters are made up of two parts (components): The first indicates the meaning and the second gives you a hint about the pronunciation. I´m creating a dictionary by myself of all of the characters by their phonetic component. Up to now, my dictionary has more than 3000 phonetic components. It has been more than three years that I´m working on this project.