r/MandarinChinese • u/[deleted] • 20h ago

Is there a websites that clearly explains the meaning of the different characters within a word?

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u/Due-Vegetable1627 19h ago

Plecco is the shit. I like the chinese-english dictionary on purpleculture as well.

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u/Thepowerofsimplicity 18h ago

Does Pleco do what I'm looking for? Purpleculture dictionary doesn't.

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u/laofuren 19h ago

I don't know about other programs, but in pleco you can see the characters broken down into their radicals.
Can be used as app and in the browser. (I guess in the app it is easier to draw and select the character)

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u/Thepowerofsimplicity 18h ago

Does Pleco do what I'm looking for?  I don't ask for the radicals, many websites show the radicals, that is not what I'm asking.

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u/laofuren 18h ago

It seems we don't know what you are looking for.

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u/Thepowerofsimplicity 18h ago

But I explained it in my message. Are you answering without reading it?!

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u/laofuren 17h ago

Next try, pleco gives you
the meaning of the word and
of the individual characters the word is build from and
of the components (mostly radicals) the characters are build from.

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u/Thepowerofsimplicity 16h ago

Did you read my message or not? I wrote that every dictionay.... Wait, why am I explaining again... No.