In comparison, Chinese has nothing that corresponds to an alphabet, though there are recurring components that make up the characters.

相比之下，尽管中文也有组成汉字的那些共用的偏旁部首，却没有相应的字母。

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All the while, there would be recurring characters trying to find him, trying to stop him, and so on.

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"Staging the World" also touches on the subject of cross-dressing a recurring comic device in the plays, in which female characters, like Rosalind in "As You Like It, " are in male disguise.

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Throughout the "Ring, " the brass are associated with some of the major recurring musical themes, called "leitmotifs" leading motives linked to particular characters, concepts, props and more.

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