When you begin to learn Mandarin Chinese, one of the first things you discover are the repetitive graphical components within different characters. For example, can you see what look like three little water drops within these water-related characters: 江 (jiāng / river),河 (hé / river), and 湖 (hú / lake). These repeated graphical components are called radicals and they are as essential to Chinese as
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