A vast majority of Chinese characters are compounds, and understanding how the components fit together and which function they have, will make learning and remembering characters a lot easier. 

Link to article: The building blocks of Chinese, part 3: Compound characters

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Link to articles about phonetic components: https://www.hackingchinese.com/phonetic-components-part-1-the-key-to-80-of-all-chinese-characters/

Link to my review of Outlier Linguistics dictionary and character course: https://www.hackingchinese.com/review-the-outlier-linguistics-dictionary-of-chinese-characters-with-discount-code/

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