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Some people besides 10,000 most common words need to remember more rare words, for instance, if dealing with a special field, biology, economics, etc. As I found, roughly a half of the  Chinese words include characters of the 15 most used radicals. The latter are five the most frequent radicals 亻, 扌(on the left), 口 (not crossed), 木 (朩) , 氵, and ten just frequent radicals 土, 虫 , 月 , 女, 忄, 钅(金), 讠, 纟, 辶, 艹. These radicals are easily distinguishable. Words with such radiclas can be remembered in transcription inclusive the radicals. For example, 湿润 can be remembered as 水shī 水ruǹ or   氵shī 氵ruǹ (both radical forms mean the 氵 radical - the 水 radical is not so frequent)   for people with better visial memory or as shuǐshī-shuǐruǹ for people with better ear memory. People with better ear memory merely remember both forms, the longer (for own use) and the shorter one (real) as we remember European Union and EU, television and TV, etc. shuǐshī-shuǐruǹ and shīruǹ. If only one character represents these the 15 most frequent radicals, then it can be as this:  辽阔  as  辶liaókuò or the pair chuòliaó-kuò and  liaókuò.

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