Learn Chinese
- Introduction to hanzi construction
- Published on 2020-11-29 14:35:00
- Updated on 2023-10-15 20:26:04
- There’s a pattern to their construction—in fact, most Chinese characters fall under the semanto-phonetic type, which are less arbitrary than purely pictographic and semantic characters. I’ll walk you through common types of hanzi in this post. While this information is Chinese-specific, you can generally apply it to Japanese kanji as well.