Character Pronunciation Clues Is there any way to know what a character's pronunciation or tone is, based on the strokes or radicals that make up the characters?
Yes, for example these characters are taken from a Chinese grammar textbook:



There are obviously others, but as you can see, it's possible to guess the pronunciation. In other cases, according to the radicals, you can understand if they refer to a certain "topic", for example, the third one in that list is the radical for "water", the last one is the radical for "fire", and so on.