... use radicals as hints to link the meanings and writings of Chinese characters. For instance, “河”(he2, river) [Note: Chinese char-acters will be followed by their pronunciations, denoted in ... read-ing ability, e.g., (Siok and Fletcher, 2001). Moreo-ver, the ability to detect and apply phonological consistency in GPCs, including the roles of PCs in PSCs in Chinese, plays an instrumental ... char-acters. For instance, “WG” stands for “田土”, which are the upper and the lower parts of “里”, “WL” stands for “田中”, which could be used to rebuild “甲” in a sense. By comparing the internal...