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 the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, all of which include Chinese characters and derivatives in their writing systems, sometimes paired with other scripts. Collectively, ...
,
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'' ( (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. The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing ...
''; and the "CJK Radicals Supplement" block that includes 115 radical components used in other modern dictionaries, including
simplified Chinese
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* Simplification of algebraic expressions ...
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
The Tangut script ( Tangut: ; ) was a logographic writing system, used for writing the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. According to the latest count, 5863 Tangut characters are known, excluding variants. The Tangut characte ...
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 script (Yi: ; ) is an umbrella term for 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 var ...
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 tau ...
in Southern
Sichuan
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and Northern
Yunnan
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.
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
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. This component is often a semantic indicator similar to a morpheme, though ...
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List of Shuowen Jiezi radicals
The list of ''Shuowen Jiezi'' radicals consists of the 540 radical (Chinese characters), radicals used to index ''Shuowen Jiezi'', created by lexicographer Xu Shen. The 540 radicals are shown below.Donald Sturgeon, 《說文解字》 electronic ed ...
, a system of 540 components used by
Xu Shen
Xu Shen ( CE) was a Chinese calligrapher, philologist, politician, and writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-189). He was born in the Zhaoling district of Run'an prefecture (today known as Luohe in Henan Province). During his own lifetime, ...
(d. ~147AD) in his
Shuowen Jiezi
''Shuowen Jiezi'' () is an 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 ...
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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'' ( (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. The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing d ...
(1716), made under the leadership of the
Kangxi Emperor
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List of Xinhua Zidian radicals ''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' () is a lexicographic tool used to order the Chinese characters in mainland China. The specification is also known as GF 0011-2009.
In China's normative documents, "radical" is defined as any ...
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Chinese characters description languages
The Chinese character description languages are several proposed languages to most accurately and completely describe Chinese (or CJK) characters and information such as their list of components, list of strokes (basic and complex), their order, a ...
, computer and
SVG based descriptions of CJK characters
References
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