Oh. Okay, now I get you. Well, sort of. The accents kinda get randomly assigned, don't they? It'd be helpful if, say, all verbs were this tone and etc., but that doesn't seem to be the case. And Chinese has so many homophones even after tones are factored in...
true that. But learning about the tone shifts have helped me suss out what the word actually *is*...in a way, tho, it's kinda fun figuring it out, 'cause the pinyin and the radicals are kinda like puzzle pieces.
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