A report on Chinese characters and Radical (Chinese characters)
A Chinese radical or indexing component is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.
- Radical (Chinese characters)That is, pictograms extended from literal objects to take on symbolic or metaphoric meanings; sometimes even displacing the use of the character as a literal term, or creating ambiguity, which was resolved though character determinants, more commonly but less accurately known as "radicals" i.e. concept keys in the phono-semantic characters.
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Chinese dictionary
3 linksSignificantly longer lexicographical history than any other language.
Significantly longer lexicographical history than any other language.
The Chinese language has two words for dictionary: zidian (character/logograph dictionary) for written forms, that is, Chinese characters, and cidian (word/phrase dictionary), for spoken forms.
The second system of dictionary organization is by recurring graphic components or radicals.
Kangxi radical
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The 214 Kangxi radicals, also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals of Chinese characters.
Kangxi Dictionary
2 linksThe Kangxi Dictionary ( (Compendium of standard characters from the Kangxi period), published in 1716, was the most authoritative dictionary of Chinese characters from the 18th century through the early 20th.
They are grouped under the 214 radicals and arranged by the number of additional strokes in the character.
Simplified Chinese characters
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Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters used in Mainland China and Singapore, as prescribed by the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters.
The "Complete List of Simplified Characters" employs character components, not the traditional definition of radicals. A component refers to any conceivable part of a character, regardless of its position within the character, or its relative size compared to other components in the same character. For instance, in the character 摆, not only is 扌 (a traditional radical) considered a component, but so is 罢.
Shuowen Jiezi
1 linksAncient Chinese dictionary from the Han dynasty.
Ancient Chinese dictionary from the Han dynasty.
Although not the first comprehensive Chinese character dictionary (the Erya predates it), it was the first to analyze the structure of the characters and to give the rationale behind them, as well as the first to use the principle of organization by sections with shared components called radicals (bùshǒu 部首, lit. "section headers").
Traditional Chinese characters
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Traditional Chinese characters are one type of standard Chinese character sets of the contemporary written Chinese.
There are still many Unicode characters that cannot be written using most IMEs, one example being the character used in the Shanghainese dialect instead of, which is U+20C8E ( with a radical).
Stroke (CJK character)
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CJK strokes are the calligraphic strokes needed to write the Chinese characters in regular script used in East Asian calligraphy.
4) identifying fundamental components of Han radicals; and
Unicode
0 linksInformation technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
Information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
In the case of Chinese characters, this sometimes leads to controversies over distinguishing the underlying character from its variant glyphs (see Han unification).
A set of radicals was provided in Unicode 3.0 (CJK radicals between U+2E80 and U+2EFF, KangXi radicals in U+2F00 to U+2FDF, and ideographic description characters from U+2FF0 to U+2FFB), but the Unicode standard (ch.