10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 7 Aug \ parent \ on: Learn Chinese with Sensei #2: 自由人 ideasfromtheedge
A lot of these radicals came from hieroglyphs. The characters are usually classified into 6 categories:
- Pictographs
- Indicatives
- Compound ideographs
- Loangraphs
- Phonographs
- Signs
Check out this Wikipedia article for details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification