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The term radical is most commonly used to refer to the section headers of a Chinese dictionary (部首 bùshǒu), also known as index keys or classifiers. These are used to index Chinese characters in Chinese dictionaries. The indexing system supports Chinese characters throughout the ages, from Shuōwén Jiézì characters to modern ones. The term radical has been objected to by someE.g., Prof. Boltz 1994 & 2003, due to widespread confusion over the implications of its coinage. At one time radical referred to the semantic component of a Chinese character, because most (but not all) of the dictionary section headers are closely linked with the meaning of the characters which are listed under them. There is a widespread perception that these section headers are always, by definition, semantic in their roleWieger 1927, pp.14-15. But this is not always the case.For example, 木 in 沐 is a phonetic element. and not a radical. Another common misunderstanding is that radical means any component of a character. But this is inconsistent with all of its various historical uses. Read full entry

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Radical (Chinese character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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List of Chinese Radicals (Bushou)
List of the 214 Chinese character radicals showing their English names, variants, and number of strokes. ... Chinese characters can be decomposed into ...
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	Is there a list of UnicodeChinese characters' radicalstructure? Mostly for the heck of it, I'm making a Unicode font. I'd like to make it include the CJK range, since I have some uses for Chinese as a Kung Fu instructor, but there are thousands of letters! I could write a script to compose the letters from the radicals (and that would be good enough for what I need, I don't need anything too fancy) but I can't find a list that says what radicals are combined how to make each character in the list. Is there a list? I can't draw them all myself individually. I found a list that I can figure out the base radical, but I would need all the radicals and how they're combined. I'm actually making the unicode font for the Syriac and Hebrew, pluss I want something that has a bunch of ligatures for Greek. Chinese would be nice because I'd like to have one good font to just set MS Word to use and be done with it, rather than having to switch back and forth, but I have specific things I'm trying to accomplish in Syriac, Hebrew, and Greek, so those are necissary. Latin is easy, so I'm doing that. I just want to set the font for the doc and not have to worry any more about switching for specific langauges. Right now, I've got to switch for a Syriac font that I think is okay, but not great, a Hebrew font which sucks, and a Greek font that is fine but a completely different style and so looks akward.	Related Search: Other - Internet

	Why do you need to make any unicode font? Can you just install the Chinese language pack and then you can define the input method when you want to type Chinese? I am a Chinese myself and I have Chinese language pack installed on my PC. I use pin-yin as my input method.	Related Search: Other - Internet

	How does a radical index workin a Chinese dictionary andhow can i identify acharacters radical? I am learning chinese and have just got a chinese dictonary from Collins I have read the explanition on how to use the radical index several times and I still dont understand it. How do i use it correctly and also how do you work out the radical of each character they all look like they have several of them? Which I assume is not right they must only have one radical surely.	Related Search: Languages

	Let's explain with an example using the character 秋 (qiu1) which means autumn. If you look in the dictionary, 禾 (5 strokes) and 火(4 strokes) are radicals on their own. So how do you decide which is the correct radical? When a character is made up of parts sitting SIDE BY SIDE, you look at the LEFT radical FIRST, if you cannot find it in the dictionary, then look at the RIGHT radical. Now we look at another example with 露 (lu4) which means dew or exposed. This character has two radicals which can either be 雨 (8 strokes) or 足 (7 strokes). When a character is made up of a top part and a bottom part as in 雨 and 路, look at the TOP radical FIRST. As in 象 (xiang4) which means elephant (made up of a top and bottom), you cannot find a radical that corresponds to the top part, which leaves you to look at the bottom 豕 (7 strokes). There are characters which can be looked up via either radicals, eg 盘 (pan2) which means plate, has two radicals 舟(6 strokes) and 皿(5 strokes). Look up either one first and it will lead you to the character. But such characters are not many. I hope this helps you to understand it better. The key to being skilled at this is to familiarize yourself with the radicals by LOOKING at it often. The more you are acquainted with them, you can identify the radicals easily with any new characters. For practice, you can pick any character from the dictionary. Eg: 捕 (bu3) = capture. Then determine what is the radical. Then go to the front pages of the dictionary and try to look up the radical and its 'parts' and see if you can find the character. The language is more difficult than other foreign languages because of the complexity of the characters and the HanyuPinyin. But these can be learned just by reading the dictionary regularly. See more answers	Related Search: Languages

	What is the radical for thechinese surname qiu? What's the radical for the chinese surname qiu? http://c.ancestry.com/i/search /nameorigin/gb_116.jpg ^ picture of the chinese character qiu (which is a surname and Confucius's name which also means mound.)	Related Search: Languages

	Try 斤 See more answers	Related Search: Languages

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