A TED-Ed lesson by Mandarin teacher Gina Marie Elia, PhD, and animator PeiHsin Cho discusses the history and evolution of Chinese characters, known as logograms. These characters are made up of a radical component for meaning and a sound component for pronunciation, constructed from different strokes. There are 214 radicals with unique definitions, some can stand alone while others cannot.
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