COLOR CONVENTIONS
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For MARKERS, color encodes ROLE . |
both semantic and phonetic | magenta |
purely semantic | brown |
purely phonetic | cyan |
neither semantic, nor phonetic (arbitrary arrangement) | black |
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For PINYIN transliterations, color encodes TONE |
1st tone mā | red |
2nd tone má | gold |
3rd tone mǎ | green |
4th tone mà | blue |
toneless ma | grey |
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LINK CONVENTIONS (e.g. marker 月 page)
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字 : link to character data base |
部首 : (only for markers which are also radicals) link to stroke count ordered list of derivatives |
标 : link to marker data base |
画 : link to stroke sequence data base |
elementary meaning : link to online dictionary |
言 : link to Pinyin sound data base |
on a marker page
| * expand list of similarly sounding characters
| click on a character to open its page
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MARKER FRAME COLOR CONVENTIONS (e.g. character 肤 page)
(specific to character data base)
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For MARKERS, color frame encodes two KEY ROLES |
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radical, per the 188 radical set | greyish |
smallest phonetic determinant within a character | pinkish |
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