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Chinese characters are letters created by combining radicals.
So, just like the consonants and vowels of Korean, or the English alphabet, you can learn Chinese characters easily by studying them from the radicals.
However, the current number of radicals is too large and the meanings and sounds are all messed up, making it impossible to properly interpret the resources of Chinese characters.
So, excluding the less commonly used radicals, we combined the radicals with similar shapes and organized the 214 radicals into 200.
Also, the meaning and sound were reorganized, and new radical shapes were completed.

Author Park Du-su was born into a family of scholars of Chinese classics and learned Chinese classics from his father from a young age. With the intention of carrying on the family tradition, he majored in Chinese classics in college.
After studying Chinese characters for a long time, he developed a learning method that makes it easy to learn Chinese characters through radicals with new meanings and new shapes, and wrote a series of Chinese character proficiency test preparation books, such as “Magic Fluent Chinese Characters” (9 volumes) and “Elementary Chinese Characters” (6 volumes).

Chinese characters are not something you memorize by writing them unconditionally.
There is a principle behind the creation of Chinese characters.
Chinese characters are letters created by combining radicals.
So, just like the consonants and vowels of Korean, and the English alphabet, Chinese characters must be studied starting from the radicals.

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It is said that Chinese characters were created by the historian Cangjie about 5,000 years ago during the reign of the legendary emperor Huangdi in ancient China, after observing the footprints of birds and beasts. However, in reality, they were not created by a single person, but rather were created and refined by many people over a long period of time, until they took on the form they have today.
The oldest form of Chinese characters is the oracle bone script (甲骨文字), which was created during the Yin Dynasty in the Yellow River basin about 3,500 years ago.

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In the old days when there were no letters, if you wanted to talk about a mountain, you would draw its shape to show it.
And ideas and concepts that could not be expressed in pictures were expressed by creating symbols using recognizable dots or lines.
Over time, these pictures and symbols developed into a set of written characters.
But as time passed, it became difficult to express all of one's thoughts using only text.
So, we started to create new letters with new meanings by combining letters that were already in use.

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What should you do when you encounter an unfamiliar Chinese character? You'll need to consult a Chinese character dictionary, or "ja-dyeon" (字典). Radicals are the characters that serve as guides for finding Chinese characters in dictionaries, and there are about 200 of them in use.
In the dictionary, Chinese characters are organized by radicals, so if you know the radicals, you can easily find the Chinese character.
Letters belonging to the same radical basically have similar meanings.

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Chinese characters with the radical 心
刃 (blade in) + 心 (heart sim) = 忍 (patience in) → It means to endure the pain of a blade piercing the heart.
亡 (to ruin) + 心 (to forget) = 忘 (to forget) → It means to forget the memories of ruin without keeping them in your heart.

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