Chinese Quadruple Radicals
By Jennifer Ball and Maggie Li (李琪)
Quadruple radicals are not common, but they do give a sense of what one character means four times. If X = n, then 4X = 4n: we have a better sense about what a character means when its effect is replicated four times.
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