... Abstract We demonstrate applications of psycholin-guistic and sublexical information for learn-ing Chinese characters. The knowledge about the grapheme-phoneme conversion (GPC) rules of languages ... exploration of using the combination of audio and visual stimuli. In addition to pictograms, more than 80% of Chinese characters are phono-semantic characters (PSCs, henceforth) (Ho and Bryant, ... similar pronunciation when it serves as a PC in the hosting character, e.g., “賣” and “讀” are pronounced as /mai4/ and /du2/, respectively. In contrast, the pro-nunciations of “匋”, “淘”, “陶”, and...