Semantic Overlaps Between Chinese Two-Character Words and Constituent Characters: A Normative Study

In written Chinese, the graphic units are Chinese characters (CCs). Most of the commonly used characters often join with others to form two-character words (2C-words) or words of more than two characters. Indeed, over 70% of the commonly used words are 2C-words. Since almost all characters are meani...

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Main Authors: Lifeng Xue, Degao Li, Dangui Song, Wenling Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2023-11-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231211385