Recognizing half of a character and half of a word
Language Log 2021-05-02
Summary:
I have a student whose given name is Zǐhàn 子菡. The first character means "child; son; offspring; seed; small thing", plus lots of other things, for which see here. The second character is much more problematic, since it doesn't mean anything by itself, but only in combination, as in the disyllabic word hàndàn 菡萏 (literary […]