Get closer to phonograms

According to statistics, more than 90% of Chinese characters are pictophonetic characters. Using the rules of pictophonetic characters, we can find a golden key to literacy.

What are pictophonetic characters? Pictophonetic characters are a method of making characters. They are compound characters composed of radicals that represent the meaning of the word and radicals that represent the pronunciation of the word. The rules of picophonetic characters are as follows: ① All pictophonetic characters can be divided into two parts, the phonetic part that represents the pronunciation, and the shape part that expresses the meaning; ② The phonetic part of the pictophonetic characters has the function of indicating the sound; ③ The shape part of the pictophonetic characters has Ideographic functions

1. Read the pronunciation of characters correctly. About a quarter of the pictophonetic characters have the same pronunciation as the phonetic part of the whole character. Occasionally, it is really effective to read half of the character, such as "彦" reading "连 (lián)", but this easily makes us develop a sense of opportunism. This has a side effect - in many cases, reading half of the words will make you laugh. It turns out that there are about three-quarters of the phonetic characters whose phonetic diaphragms have different pronunciations from the whole character. For example, "Chou, Zhu, Tao, Prayer" with "Shou" as the phonetic diaphragm do not have a harmonious pronunciation of the phonetic diaphragms. All the same. You must be careful when reading the phonetic characters such as "槁,槧,平,天,cubus,chi,qi". Many mispronunciations in life are caused by this, such as "alcoholic". (xù)wine" is pronounced as "drinking (xiōng)wine", "achievement (yì)" is pronounced as "achievement (zhǐ)", and "花团 brocade clusters (cù)" is pronounced as "花团 brocade clusters (zú)". What to do? I think that using the phonetic diaphragm is just to guess the pronunciation of the word. The dictionary has the final say on what to read.

2. Write the correct font. All pictophonetic characters are divided into two parts, which is very helpful for us to master the glyphs. You see, which one makes more sense, dividing "sudden, astringent, and discerning" into three parts or into two parts? Obviously, it is easier to master by dividing it into two parts, because "覦" is a phonetic character, "Mo" is a phonetic character, and "马" is a phonetic character. With this analysis, it will be much easier to remember characters like "覦". Here I will teach you a mathematical trick to learn Chinese characters using phonetic characters: suddenly - (horse) + (earth) = tomb. Take stock of the key words you came across in junior high school and see how many similar calculations you can write.

3. Understand the meaning of the words. The shape of the phonetic character can help us guess the meaning of the Chinese character, such as "mania", the shape of the character is "foot", the meaning of this character may be related to "foot", impatient people often stamp their feet when they are anxious. The expressive function of the shape of the character There are also great limitations. The meanings of some pictophonetic characters are difficult to understand. For example, why does "Pian, Jian" begin with the prefix bamboo? It turns out that bamboo slips were written on them in ancient times. We cannot interpret the meaning of such characters.