Chinese Character Radicals Similar to Chinese Pinyin Table, the Chinese Radical Table lists all the radicals

for the simplified Chinese characters in the order of the stroke counts. The list of Chinese radicals is a rough equivalent of a Chinese alphabet. They are used to index the characters for Chinese dictionaries. They are also building blocks of the Chinese characters and often reflecting some common semantic or phonetic characteristic. Knowing common radicals can greatly help you learn new Chinese characters. To look up a character, you can click the radical. All the simplified characters with the radical will show up instantly. There are 214 radicals in the original Kangxi radical list, but a few of them are no longer used in the simplified Chinese. If you are looking for characters with a particular component, which may not be a radical, you can use Search by Component page. Alternatively, if you know the Pinyin, you can use Chinese Pinyin Table to look up characters. To generate Chinese character radical worksheets for offline practice, you can go to the Chinese worksheets page, click the Chinese Character Radicals link on the side bar and then hit the Generate Worksheets button. Chinese Radical Table Order by: Radical Number Stroke Count Pinyin English Radical No. Radical 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 English one line dot slash second hook two lid person legs enter eight Pinyin Stroke Count y sh din pi y gu r tu rn r r b 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 Variant (traditional)

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

down box cover ice table open box knife power wrap ladle right open box hiding enclosure ten divination seal cliff private again mouth enclosure earth scholar go go slowly night big

jing m bng j, j q do l bo b fng x sh b ji hn s yu ku wi t sh su zh x d

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62

woman child roof inch small lame corpse sprout mountain river work oneself towel dry thread shelter stride hands joined shoot with a bow bow snout hair step heart spear

n z gi cn xio yu sh ch shn chun gng j jn gn yo gung yn gng y gng j shn ch xn g

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4

63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87

door hand branch rap script dipper axe square not sun say moon tree lack stop death weapon mother compare fur clan steam water fire claw

h shu zh p wn du jn fng w r yu yu m qin zh di sh m b mo sh q shu hu zho

4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112

father lines on a trigram

f yo

4 4 4 4 4 4 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

half of a tree trunk qing slice fang cow dog profound jade melon tile sweet life use field cloth ill foot steps white skin dish eye spear arrow stone pin y ni qun xun y gu w gn shng yng tin p bng b bi p mn m mo sh sh

113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137

spirit track grain cave stand bamboo rice silk jar net sheep feather old and plow ear brush meat minister oneself arrive mortar tongue contrary boat

sh ru h xu l zh m s fu wng yng y lo r li r y ru chn z zh ji sh chun zhu

5 4 5 5 5 6 6 3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

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138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162

mountain color grass tiger insect blood walk clothes west see horn speech valley bean pig badger shell red walk foot body cart bitter morning walk

gn s co h chng xu xng y x jin jio yn g du sh zh bi ch zu z shn ch xn chn chu

6 6 3 6 6 6 6 6 6 4 7 2 7 7 7 7 4 7 7 7 7 4 7 7 3

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163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187

city wine distinguish village metal long gate mound slave short-tailed bird rain blue wrong face leather soft leather leek sound page wind fly eat head fragrant horse

y yu bin l jn chng mn f l zhu y qng fi min g wi ji yn y fng fi sh shu xing m

7 7 7 7 5 4 3 8 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 4 9 9 6 4 4 3 9 9 3

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188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212

bone high long hair fight sacrificial wine cauldron ghost fish bird salty deer wheat hemp yellow millet black embroidery frog tripod drum rat nose even tooth dragon

g go bio du chng l gu y nio l l mi m hung sh hi zh mn dng g sh b q ch lng

9 10 10 10 10 10 9 8 5 7 11 7 11 11 12 12 12 8 12 13 13 14 6 8 5

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213 214

turtle flute

gu yu

7 17

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Chinese Character Structure The character structure information is very useful for Chinese language learners to recognize the character composition. The following table lists the common character structures of modern Chinese characters. It is based on the the 12 Ideographic Description Characters (IDCs) introduced in ISO 10646 and the version 3.0 of the Unicode standard, They describe the ideographic character composition at the abstract level.

Ideographic Description Character Unicode

Description

Description in Chinese

Example Characters

2FF0 2FF1 2FF2 2FF3 2FF4 2FF5 2FF6 2FF7 2FF8 2FF9 2FFA 2FFB

Left to Right Above to Below Left to Middle and Right Above to Middle and Below Full Surround Surround from Above Surround from Below Surround from Left Surround from Upper Left Surround from Upper Right Surround from Lower Left Overlaid

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Note that the characters that appear in the first column of the table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Table The Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Table () provides the complete listing of all Pinyin syllables used in standard Mandarin. An empty cell on the table indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in standard Mandarin. The tone variations of the syllable will display on the top of the table after you click on a syllable. Click on the tone variations of a syllable to listen and practice the pronunciation. Not all 4 tones exist for each syllable. The system displays only the tone variations that exist in standard Mandarin. Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Table

a ai

Initials (Consonants) b p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r z c s a ba pa ma fa da ta na la ga ka ha zha cha sha za ca sa ai bai pai mai dai tai nai lai gai kai hai zhai chai shai zai cai sai ba pa ma da fan tan nan lan gan kan han n n n n zhan chan shan ran za ca sa n n n

an an

an ba pa ma fan da tan nan lan gan kan han ang g ng ng ng g ng g g g g g g ao ao F i n a l s ( V e ei e ba pa ma o o o me da tao nao lao gao kao hao o de te ne le ge nei lei gei nen ke he hei

zhan chan shan ran za ca sa g g g g ng ng ng zhao chao shao rao za ca sa o o o zei ze ce se n n n

zhe che she re ze ce se shei zhen chen shen ren

ei bei pei mei fei dei be pe me de fen n n n n

en en en g er er

gen ken hen

be pe me fen de ten nen len gen ken hen ng ng ng g ng g g g g g g di ti dia ni li lia ji qi xi

zhen chen shen ren ze ce se g g g g ng ng ng zhi chi shi ri zi ci si

o i yi bi pi mi w ia ya e bia pia mia l ian yan n n n s ian yan ) g g iao yao bia pia mia o o o

jia qia xia jia qia xia n n n jia qia xia ng ng ng jia qia xia o o o jie qie xie jin qin xin jin qin xin g g g

dia tia nia lia n n n n nia lia ng ng dia tia nia lia o o o o die tie nie lie nin lin din tin nin lin g g g g

ie ye bie pie mie in yin bin pin min ing yin bin pin min g g g g

io yo

ion yon g g iu you o on we g ng ou ou miu diu niu liu lo do ton non lon gon kon hon ng g g g g g g po mo do fou tou nou lou gou kou hou u u u ku hu gua kua hua guai kuai huai du tua nua lua gua kua hua an n n n n n n gua kua hua ng ng ng ne le dui tui du tun n gui kui hui lun gun kun hun o bo po mo fo

jio qio xio ng ng ng jiu qiu xiu zhon chon g g ron zo co so g ng ng ng zo co so u u u

zhou chou shou rou

u wu bu pu mu fu du tu nu lu gu ua wa uai wai ua wa n n ua wa ng ng ue yue ui wei un we n

zhu chu shu ru zu cu su zhua shua chuai shuai zhua chua shua rua zu cu su n n n n an an an zhua chua shua ng ng ng jue que xue zhui chui shui rui zui cui sui zhun chun shun run zhuo chuo shuo ruo ju qu xu jua qua xua n n n jun qun xun zu cu su n n n zu cu su o o o

uo wo yu a yua n n n yun

du tuo nuo luo guo kuo huo o n l

Next to each syllable variation, there is an characters link. You can click the link to display all the characters that have the same pronunciation. The characters are ordered by the usage frequency. You can move your mouse over the characters to view their English defintions. If you want to know more about a character, click it to bring up the character details page. If you are looking for characters with a particular radical, you can use Chinese Radical Table; if you are looking for characters with a non-radical component, you can use the Search by Component page.

Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation Arch Chinese offers Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Table, Mandarin Chinese Tone Drill and Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Converter to help you study and practice Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. Unlike English, Chinese is not a phonetic language. The pronunciation is not related to the writing of

Chinese characters. Pinyin, the romanization system for Mandarin Chinese, is used to teach Chinese school children and foreign learners the standard pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese. The fundamental elements in Pinyin are initials and finals, which represent the segmental phonemic portion of the language. Initials are initial consonants, while finals are the combinations of medials (semivowels coming before the vowel), the nucleus vowel, and coda (final vowel or consonant). Chinese is a tonal language. There are four tones in Mandarin Chinese (Click the tone examples to hear the tone differences): 1. The first tone: flat tone, marked by a macron on top of the Pinyin vowel, such as in m (, mother) 2. The second tone: rising tone, marked by an acute accent on top of the Pinyin vowel, such as in m (, numb) 3. The third tone: falling-rising tone, marked by a caron (or rounded breve) on top of the Pinyin vowel, such as in m (, horse) 4. The fourth tone: falling tone, marked by a grave accent on top of the Pinyin vowel, such as in m (, to scold) The tone marks are important for correct pronunciation of Mandarin syllables. A common convention is to use a tone number at the end of individual syllables to mark their tones. Certain tones change depending on what tone follows. When a third tone follows a third tone, the first syllable is said almost as a second tone, such as ni3 hao3(hello). As an example, the character (yi1, one) is pronunced as a second tone before a fourth tone and as a fourth tone before the other tones. The character (bu4, not) also changes its pronunctiation depending on its place in the sentence or the syllable which follows it. An umlaut is placed over the letter u when it occurs after the initials l and n in order to represent the sound y. Tonal markers are added on top of the umlaut, as in l and n. v is commonly used instead by convention. In Mandarin Chinese, there is also a special sandhi for four tones, called neutral tone (toneless). It is normally pronounced short and light. It occurs on stressless syllables and has a pitch entirely determined by the tones of adjacent syllables, for examples, b ba (, father), shn me (, what,why). To help you study Mandarin Chinese pronunciation, the Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Table provides the complete listing of all Pinyin syllables used in standard Mandarin. An empty cell on the table indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in standard Mandarin. The tone variations of the syllable will display on the top of the table after you click on a syllable. Click on the tone variations of a syllable to practice the pronunciation. Not all 4 tones exist for each syllable. The system displays only the tone variations that exist in standard Mandarin. Another userful Pinyin tool is the Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Converter, which allows you to convert Pinyin with tone number notation to Pinyin with tone marks.

Mandarin Chinese Tone Drill Mandarin Chinese Tone Drill is designed to help you test and practice your knowledge of Mandarin Pinyin

and tones. When you click the Play button on the toolbar, the system randomly plays the pronunciation of a Chinese character. After your listen to it, you can press one of the tone buttons to check. You can also click the Show Pinyin button on the toolbar to view the Pinyin corresponding to the pronunciation. Drill history is listed at the bottom of the page. You can click any of the Pinyin links to review the related characters and phrases.