The Impacts of Radicals on Chinese Characters Abstract With more and more people learning Chinese nowadays, how to learn it well and efficiently has become a hot issue. In this regard, Chinese characters draw every learner’s eyes and Chinese character radicals play an important role in learning Chinese characters. This paper analyzes the functions of Chinese character radicals, and then a detailed study is carried out. Chinese character radicals can produce impacts on Chinese characters as English affixes do on English words, to some degree, from the aspects of pronunciation, form and meaning. It can be found that Chinese character radicals have great impacts on meanings of characters but little on their pronunciations and forms. As a result, some tips on how to make full use of the rules found in this paper to learn Chinese characters well are given at the end of the paper. It focuses on radicals in Chinese free or semi-free monosyllabic morphemes. Chinese character radicals are important for learning the Chinese language. Through this study, it can facilitate learners to learn Chinese more easily and efficiently，especially those foreign learners. 47223

Keywords: Chinese character radicals, the Chinese language, function, pronunciation, form, meaning

 汉字部首对汉字的影响摘要随着“汉语热”的到来，越来越多的人开始学习汉语，因此如何更好并更有效率地学习汉语成为一个热门话题。本文对汉字部首的功能进行细化的分析和研究。从音形义的角度出发，研究发现，汉字部首对汉字的影响犹如英语词缀对英文单词的作用。汉字部首尤其对汉字的意义产生重大的影响，但是对其发音和字形影响不大。因而，在文章末尾部分会给出一些关于如何利用这些规律更好地学习汉字的建议。本文重点关注汉语中自由或半自由语素中的汉字。汉字部首对汉语言文字的学习十分重要，因此通过此项研究，笔者希望研究结果能有利于汉语学习者更好地学习汉语，尤其是外国的汉语学习者。

毕业论文关键词：汉字；部首；汉语；功能；发音；字形；意义

 Contents

I. Introduction 1

1.1 Concepts of Chinese characters and radicals 1

1.2 Research method 2

1.3 Purpose and significance 2

II. Analysis of the Chinese language and Chinese character radicals 4

2.1 Study obstacles 4

2.2 Study objects 4

2.2.1 Noun 4

2.2.2 Verb 5

2.2.3 Adjective 6

2.2.4 Adverb 6

2.3 Supplimentary analysis 7

2.4 Strengths of the Chinese language 7

2.5 Crises that the Chinese language faces 8

2.6 Prospect of the Chinese language development 8

III. Recommendation