Getting Radical about Radicals Why you should think of characters in terms of functional components. By John Renfroe I know this advice is going to rub some people the wrong way, but hopefully by the end of the article you’ll understand why I say this: radicals are of little use for learning how characters work. Their purpose is indexing characters in a dictionary. There’s a huge misconception abo
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