Some Chinese characters are very simple and are made of just a few strokes, while others are made of other simpler characters, which are called radicals.
Radicals are simple characters that combine to create compound Chinese characters.
They have various meanings and can usually help you to understand the meaning and the pronunciation of compound characters.
There are around 200 radicals in the Chinese language; therefore some people compare those radicals with letters or the roots of words.
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