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When you look up a word with Premium Chinese Add-on, you will see the decomposition of that word under Formation task in the pop-up, where it is decomposed to the smallest radicals.
You can see a Decomposition symbol before each group of radicals and the single radical itself, like this:
![](https://glotcms.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/2020/11/Screenshot-2020-11-05-174318.png)
In the example above,
夜 = 亠 + (亻) + (夕 + 丶)
Here is a list of these symbols and their meanings:
![](https://glotcms.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/2020/11/Decomposition-_-Legend--_---1-.png)
From the symbol explanation, we can understand that:
夜 = 亠 + (亻) + (夕 + 丶)
With:
- 夜 is created by 亠 lying on top of the rest
- After that, (亻) and (夕 + 丶) stand next to each others
- (亻) is a simplification of 人
- 夕 overlays 丶
- 夕 is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals and is the key component (carrying the meaning of the word)
- 丶is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals