Learn the secrets of compound words in Mandarin Chinese, how they are formed and why they account for 90% of the Chinese language!

In this video, you'll learn about the 3 major types of compound words in Chinese, reduplicated words (重叠词), derivative words (派生词), and double root words/compounded words (复合词). I will also briefly cover binding words (联绵词), which are 2 syllable words that AREN'T compound words. Hopefully, you'll also realize how critical compound words are to the Chinese language and how fascinating the language is when you can decipher them!

Part 1 - "Why Chinese HATES 1 Syllable Words":    • Why Chinese HATES 1 Syllable Words  
Part 3 - "Why Chinese Verbs NEED an Object":    • Why Chinese Verbs NEED an Object (som...  

~TIME STAMPS~
0:00 || A Language of Compound Words
2:47 || Binding Words (联绵词)
3:34 || Reduplicated Words (重叠词)
4:28 || Derivative Words (派生词)
5:19 || Double Root Words (复合词)
7:59 || Why not 3/4 syllable words?
9:00 || The Final Takeaway & Analogy

NOTE: While this video offers an overall breakdown of compound words in Chinese, there are some things I want to clarify here. The first is that I do not take into account multiple definitions of a character in this video. The best way go about studying this though, is to treat multiple definitions as separate words, that all happen to share the same character (so like homonyms, i.e “bear” and “bear”). In the word 助理, the definition of 理 is “manage”, but in the word 理解, the definition of 理 is “logic”.

The other thing is that “double root words” is a term I coined for this video. Most other sources will call 复合词 “compounded words”, but to avoid confusion with the overall category of compound words, I chose to call it something different.

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FURTHER READING/SOURCES
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Decode Mandarin Compound Words: https://www.decodemandarinchinese.com...
"Chinese: A Language of Compound Words?": https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
"The Morphology of Chinese": https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

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