Meta:

  1. 譚 is the 2140th most frequent character.
  2. has 2 dictionary entries.
  3. appears as a character in 5 words.
  4. appears as a component in 0 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
=> , No glyph available
Radical :
=> (speech), 西 (west), (sun/day), (ten)
Graphical :
=> , , , , , 丿, , , , , , ,

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. Tan2 - surname Tan
  2. tan2 - variant of 談|谈[tan2]

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. Pronunciation clue for 譚 (tan2): The component 言 is pronounced as 'yan2'. It has the same pinyin final.

Example Words:

High Frequency

谭咏麟 (譚詠麟)

Medium Frequency

天方夜谭 (天方夜譚)
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Meta:

  1. 嗣 is the 2687th most frequent character.
  2. has 1 dictionary entry.
  3. appears as a character in 3 words.
  4. appears as a component in 0 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
=> No glyph available,
Radical :
=> (mouth), (upside down box), (grass), (N/A), (one), (mouth)
Graphical :
=> , , , , ,

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. si4 - succession (to a title)/to inherit/continuing (a tradition)/posterity

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. Pronunciation clue for 嗣 (si4): The component 司 is pronounced as 'si1'. It has the same pronunciation as the character, but differs on tone.
  2. Pronunciation clue for 嗣 (si4): The component 一 is pronounced as 'yi1'. It has the same pinyin final.

Example Words:

High Frequency

子嗣 

Medium Frequency

 
谭嗣同 (譚嗣同)

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Meta:

  1. 同 is the 69th most frequent character.
  2. has 2 dictionary entries.
  3. appears as a character in 148 words.
  4. appears as a component in 20 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
=> , 𠮛
Radical :
=> (upside down box), (one), (mouth)
Graphical :
=> , ,

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. tong2 - like/same/similar/together/alike/with
  2. tong4 - see 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. There are no phonetic clues for this character.

Example Words:

High Frequency

不同 
共同 
 
同事 
同学 (同學)
同时 (同時)
同样 (同樣)

Medium Frequency

一同 
共同点 (共同點)
合同 
同仁 
同伴 
同居 
同志 
同性 
同性恋 (同性戀)
同情 
同意 
同感 
同桌 
同步 
同盟 
同胞 
同行 
同道 
同龄 (同齡)
大同 
如同 
志同道合 
感同身受 
相同 
胡同 
与众不同 (與眾不同)
认同 (認同)
赞同 (讚同)
陪同 
党同伐异 (黨同伐異)
Decomposition Levels:
Level 1: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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