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Abstract. This paper is about our viewpoints and methodology concerning the description of the structure of Chinese characters. First, we describe how components can be detected in characters. When a character is used as a component of a compound character and its shape appears without significant change, then the component can be easily identified. However, in many cases, it is not so easy to find the components that build a character out of purely visual features. One of the factors is simplification of the graphic form when characters are assembled out of components. Such a change of glyph form reduces the connection with pronunciation and meaning of the original character and increases the symbolic aspect of the character. It is particularly complicated when multiple components are combined, transformed and demotivated into a symbolic component. Here we discuss these issues with respect to the productivity of components and to the relationships between components and characters.

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Tomohiko Morioka (2020), “Viewpoints on the Structural Description of Chinese Characters,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 5, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 683–712.


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   AUTHOR = {Tomohiko Morioka},
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   TITLE = {{Viewpoints on the Structural Description of Chinese Characters}},
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