Meaning of subcharacter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lesser or secondary character in fiction.
2. Any of the components making up a complex text character.

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“The characters, the subcharacters, the mature but tragic love story, all appealed to me. And the technique of telling the stories with a narrator who would function like a Greek chorus occurred to me in what I thought was a brilliant flash.”

“However, as discussed by Melton, a Chinese character is an ideograph which frequently contains two or more parts called subcharacters. The subcharacters are commonly called radicals in Chinese lexicography.”

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