From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 3009
Date: 2004-07-12
>The reason the components are called the "radical" (or "semantic") and
> > A Hànzì, although analysable,
> > cannot be broken down into stand-alone units (your
> > 'blocks'),
>
> [Marco] (Never talked about "blocks". Perhaps you mean
> "components".)
>
> In an earlier post, you said Hànzì character-like
> elements could be broken down into *smaller*
> components (or whatever term you used). Well, those
> ultimate, smaller components have no phonetical value.
> That's what I meant; and that's the difference with
> Egyptian.