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汉字的偏旁（一）
Radicals of Chinese Characters（1）
从已学的汉字中，我们可以看到，有些汉字形体的某个组成部分（字素）是相同的，如"语、谁、请、谢"中的"讠"；"你、他们、信、作、什"中的"亻"；"吗、哪、叫、呢"中的"口"等。这些相同的部分就是汉字的偏旁。掌握汉字的偏旁，对记汉字、查字典很有帮助。
Some of the characters that we have come across share the same components.For instance，语，谁，请，and谢have the common component 讠；你，他，他，信，作and什have the common component 亻；and吗，哪，叫，and呢have the common component口.A component that a number of characters share is known as a radical.To remember Chinese characters and to be able to look them up in a dictionary,one should have a good mastery of radicals.
语、谁、请、谢、讨、让、讲、诉、词、认、记、识、辩
你、们、他、信、保、体、作、住、什、休、借
吗、哪、叫、呢、吃、听、味、唱、喊、喝、嘴、问
汉字是表意文字。汉字的偏旁有的表达一定的意义。如"讠"是"言（yán，language；to speak）"的简化，所以带"讠"的字往往与说话有关；"亻"是"人"演变来的，带有"亻"的字往往与人有关；带有"口’，的字往往与嘴有关。
As the Chinese written forms originated from ideograms，their radicals mostly hold meanings.For example，characters containing the radical 讠，the simplified form of言，signifies"speech"；the radical 亻，originated from the character人，is often used to form a character referring to people；characters with the radical口indicate something that has to do with a human mouth.
