What is Arch Chinese Character Decomposition Explorer?
When a character is being animated, in addition to example words and sentences, the character decomposition explorer shows the composition of the character. The character decomposition explorer is an integral part of the Chinese character animator. It allows you to drill down into the character components one level at a time. This feature can help you understand what components a character is made up from and how characters are related to each other. When a character is animated, the first level component(s) and radical are displayed automatically. Radicals are displayed as in blue and non-radical components are displayed in black. If the component can be further decomposed, you can click the component to expand it and view the components of the component. The Pinyin and English definitions are shown next to the component or radical. You can also double click a component or radical in the explorer to view more detailed information, such as stroke order, character structure and pronunci