The List of Unicode radicals comprises those
Unicode
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characters that represent
radical components of
CJK characters
In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include Chinese characters. It can also go by CJKV to include Chữ Nôm, the Chinese-origin lo ...
,
Tangut characters or
Yi syllables. These are used primarily for indexing characters in dictionaries.
There are two CJK radicals blocks: the "Kangxi Radicals" block that includes the
214 standard radicals used in the ''
Kangxi Dictionary
The ''Kangxi Dictionary'' () is a Chinese dictionary published in 1716 during the High Qing, considered from the time of its publishing until the early 20th century to be the most authoritative reference for written Chinese characters. Wanting ...
''; and the "CJK Radicals Supplement" block that includes 115 radical components used in other modern dictionaries, including
simplified Chinese
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Mathematics
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and
Japanese radicals forms.
There is one "Tangut Components" block that includes 768 radicals and components that are used to index Tangut characters in dictionaries of the
Tangut script or to describe the structure of Tangut characters.
There is one "Yi Radicals" block that includes 55 radicals used to index Yi characters in dictionaries of the standardized
Yi script
The Yi scripts (; ) are two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram script), and the later Yi syllabary. The script is historically known in Chinese as ''Cuan Wen'' () or ''Wei Shu'' () and various other names (), amon ...
used for writing the
Nuosu language
Nuosu or Nosu (, transcribed as ), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it has been chosen by the Chinese government as the standard Yi language () and as such is the only one taught ...
in Southern
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
and Northern
Yunnan
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
.
Sets of radicals for other
sinoform scripts, such as
Jurchen, have also been proposed for encoding in Unicode.
Unicode tables
See also
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Section headers of a Chinese dictionary
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List of Shuowen Jiezi radicals, a system of 540 components used by
Xu Shen
Xu Shen () was a Chinese calligrapher, philologist, politician, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–189 CE). During his own lifetime, Xu was recognized as a preeminent scholar of the Five Classics. He was the author of ''Shuowen Jiezi'' ...
(d. ~147AD) in his
Shuowen Jiezi
The ''Shuowen Jiezi'' is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen , during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). While prefigured by earlier reference works for Chinese characters like the ''Erya'' (), the ''Shuowen Jiezi'' contains the ...
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List of Kangxi radicals
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, a system of 214 components used by the
Kangxi dictionary
The ''Kangxi Dictionary'' () is a Chinese dictionary published in 1716 during the High Qing, considered from the time of its publishing until the early 20th century to be the most authoritative reference for written Chinese characters. Wanting ...
(1716), made under the leadership of the
Kangxi Emperor
The Kangxi Emperor (4 May 165420 December 1722), also known by his temple name Emperor Shengzu of Qing, personal name Xuanye, was the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign of 61 ...
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List of Xinhua Zidian radicals
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Chinese characters description languages, computer and
SVG based descriptions of CJK characters
References
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