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Chinese characters form a web of semantic and phonetic links between characters. The links can be observed as structural components in an ideographic structure of characters. We examined the structural principles underlying the semantic and phonetic network by studying the statistical properties of the network structure. We report our preliminary results about the distribution of the number of links from components and between characters, and other quantities.

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  1. ATR Human Information Science Laboratories, 619-0288, Kyoto, Japan

    Yoshi Fujiwara

  2. Bio-Informatics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuhiro Suzuki

  3. Documentation and Information Center for Chinese Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Tomohiko Morioka

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  1. Yoshi Fujiwara
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Fujiwara, Y., Suzuki, Y. & Morioka, T. Network of words. Artificial Life and Robotics 7, 160–163 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02471199

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