汉字 in Context

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汉字

Usage 1 - "Chinese character": 

Sentence：

汉字难写吗？ 

English:

Are Chinese characters difficult to write?

Top-Down Words:

难 nán - difficult
写 xiě - to write

Sentence:

有些汉字很难写。

English:

Some Chinese characters are hard to write. 

Top-Down Words:

些 xiē - some
难 nán - difficult
写 xiě - to write

*Sentence：

因为今天学的汉字我还没写完。

English:

Because I haven't finished writing the Chinese characters I learned today.

Top-Down Words:

学 xué - to learn
写 xiě - to write

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Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020

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Kate Gans

Speaking of 汉字，is there an “alphabetical order” in Chinese?
It is easy to search electronically, but what happens if you need to look up something in a printed dictionary?

Mandarin Blueprint

If you have a paper dictionary (why, though?), then you'd search by Radical. You may recall that we prefer to say "character components" as opposed to "radicals" because "radical" is the term for which component *category* a 汉字 falls into. From there, you can use that radical to look up characters. Here are some Quora answers that get specific: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-look-up-Chinese-characters-in-a-Chinese-dictionary

MB Team

Here's the link to where Phil & Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VUXnc__GtM&t=2269s