Chinese is a pictorial language and is the only Language still in use which has no Alphabet. Chinese Characters were initially originated from picture. According legend, Cang Jie (仓颉) inspired by the trace of bird and animal, observing the nature such as Sun, moon, wood, created Chinese Characters or scripts.  

Chinese Characters present a daunting challenge to foreigner as well as native Chinese. But good news, we have some secrets for you to study Chinese in a smarter way:  

 Even there is no alphabet but have Component Part (Radicals) in Chinese. The Most Common 20 Chinese Radicals which account 51% of total Chinese Characters.

Here are the first 50 Radicals out of 220 in my collections.