List of unicode radicals
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The List of Unicode radicals for CJK characters is an ongoing effort to synthesize the former components of modern day CJK characters into a complete list of components. This list is based on the system of 214 traditional radicals, used within the Kangxi dictionary
(1716), but has been expanded to include known reductions (⽵→⺮) and local variations (⿔→⻲、⻳). Thus, it currently contains 214 + 116 = 330 components.
These computer-based components are used, for example, as a basis to create Chinese fonts, or to create sets of data related to CJK characters, within battlefront technologies such as the Chinese character description languages.
Kangxi dictionary
The Kangxi Dictionary was the standard Chinese dictionary during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Kangxi Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty ordered its compilation in 1710. The creator innovated greatly by reusing and confirming the new Zihui system of 596 radicals, since then known as 596 Kangxi...
(1716), but has been expanded to include known reductions (⽵→⺮) and local variations (⿔→⻲、⻳). Thus, it currently contains 214 + 116 = 330 components.
These computer-based components are used, for example, as a basis to create Chinese fonts, or to create sets of data related to CJK characters, within battlefront technologies such as the Chinese character description languages.
Unicode table
See also
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- List of Shuowen Jiezi radicals – a system of 540 components used by Xu ShenXu ShenXǔ Shèn was a Chinese philologist of the Han Dynasty. He was the author of Shuowen Jiezi, the first Chinese dictionary with character analysis, as well as the first to organize the characters by shared components. It contains over 9,000 character entries under 540 radicals, explaining the origins...
(d. ~147AD) in his Shuowen JieziShuowen JieziThe Shuōwén Jiězì was an early 2nd century CE Chinese dictionary from the Han Dynasty. Although not the first comprehensive Chinese character dictionary , it was still the first to analyze the structure of the characters and to give the rationale behind them , as well as the first to use the... - List of Kangxi radicals – a system of 214 components used by the Kangxi dictionaryKangxi dictionaryThe Kangxi Dictionary was the standard Chinese dictionary during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Kangxi Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty ordered its compilation in 1710. The creator innovated greatly by reusing and confirming the new Zihui system of 596 radicals, since then known as 596 Kangxi...
(1716), made under Emperor Kangxi of Qing leadership
- List of Xinhua Zidian radicals
- Chinese characters description languages – computer and SVG based descriptions of CJK characters
- CJK characters