Akshually, you can often know the pronunciation of a Chinese character from one of it’s radicals. I don’t know how many characters this is the case for for Chinese (and how it varies between different spoken Chinese languages), but for Japanese it’s like 80% of them.
Akshually, you can often know the pronunciation of a Chinese character from one of it’s radicals. I don’t know how many characters this is the case for for Chinese (and how it varies between different spoken Chinese languages), but for Japanese it’s like 80% of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Phonographs