Etymological words and borrowed words are among categories of Chinese characters from different perspectives. They often intersect together.
If we cleaned out all the borrowed words, less than half of modern Chinese will be left, "he said." Borrowing words from other languages is a global phenomenon.
Words may fall into the basic word stock and nonbasic vocabulary by use frequency, into content words and functional words by notion, and into native words and borrowed words by origin.
國文精選館
