Wood, Clare Patricia (2009). Contemporary perspectives on reading and spelling. Routledge, New York, pp. 203. ISBN 978-0-415-49716-9. Gearchiveerd op 26 maart 2023 "Often, the Chinese character can function as an independent unit in sentences, but sometimes it must be paired with another character or more to form a word. [...] Most words consist of two or more characters, and more than 80 per cent make use of lexical compounding of morphemes (Packard, 2000)."
(en) William G. Boltz (1999). The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC. Cambridge University Press, "Language and Writing", pp. 108. ISBN 9780521470308. Gearchiveerd op 12 juni 2023. Geraadpleegd op 3 april 2019.
Wood, Clare Patricia (2009). Contemporary perspectives on reading and spelling. Routledge, New York, pp. 203. ISBN 978-0-415-49716-9. Gearchiveerd op 26 maart 2023 "Often, the Chinese character can function as an independent unit in sentences, but sometimes it must be paired with another character or more to form a word. [...] Most words consist of two or more characters, and more than 80 per cent make use of lexical compounding of morphemes (Packard, 2000)."
(en) William G. Boltz (1999). The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC. Cambridge University Press, "Language and Writing", pp. 108. ISBN 9780521470308. Gearchiveerd op 12 juni 2023. Geraadpleegd op 3 april 2019.