''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' () is a
lexicographic
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tool used to order the
Chinese characters
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in
mainland China
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. The specification is also known as GF 0011-2009.
In China's normative documents, "radical" is defined as any component or ''piānpáng'' of Chinese characters, while is translated as "indexing component".
History
In 1983, the Committee for Reforming the Chinese Written Language and the State Administration of Publication of China published ''The Table of Unified Indexing Chinese Character Components (Draft)'' (), a draft version of the current standard. In 2009, the
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
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and the
State Language Work Committee issued ''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' (GF 0011-2009 ), which includes 201 principal indexing components and 100 associated indexing components
Usage
This table has been adopted in the newer versions of ''
Xinhua Zidian
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'' and ''
Xiandai Hanyu Cidian
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''. While mainland China has a different method to identify a Chinese character's indexing component (as prescribed in "" ''Specification for Identifying Indexing Components of GB 13000.1 Chinese Characters Set'') from Traditional Chinese dictionaries, many dictionaries (usually arranged in
hanyu pinyin
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order) index Chinese character in a "multi-entry" way which allow readers to look up a character through different radicals.
The specification specifies the table may also be used in
Traditional Chinese
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dictionaries or dictionaries that collect both traditional and simplified forms of Chinese characters with some necessary adjustments.
List of radicals
* 1 stroke:
* 2 strokes:
* 3 strokes:
* 4 strokes:
* 5 strokes:
* 6 strokes:
* 7 strokes:
* 8 strokes:
* 9 strokes:
* 10 strokes:
* 11 strokes:
* 12 strokes:
* 13 strokes:
* 14 strokes:
* 17 strokes:
See also
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Radical (Chinese character)
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
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List of Unicode radicals
The List of Unicode radicals comprises those Unicode characters that represent radical components of CJK characters, Tangut characters or Yi syllables. These are used primarily for indexing characters in dictionaries.
There are two CJK radical ...
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Unicode chart - Kangxi Radicals
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Unicode Chart - CJK Radicals Supplement
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List of Kangxi radicals
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- 214 radicals
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Table of Japanese kanji radicals
Kanji radicals are graphemes, or graphical parts, that are used in organizing Japanese kanji in dictionaries. They are derived from the 214 Chinese Kangxi radicals.
Table key
The following table shows the 214 Kangxi radicals, which are derived fr ...
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Simplified table of Japanese kanji radicals
This is a simplified table of Japanese kanji visual components (graphemes) that does away with all the archaic forms found in the Japanese version of the Kangxi radicals.
The 214 Kanji radicals are technically classifiers as they are not alway ...
References
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