Chinese character radicals information

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In the traditional Chinese character 媽 mā "mother". The left part is the radical 女 nǚ "female". The character is the semantic component of a phono-semantic compound (形聲字), and the right part, 馬 mǎ "horse", is the phonetic component.

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A Chinese radical (Chinese: 部首; pinyin: bùshǒu; lit. 'section header') 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 sometimes it may be a phonetic component or even an artificially extracted portion of the character. In some cases the original semantic or phonological connection has become obscure, owing to changes in character meaning or pronunciation over time.

The English term "radical" is based on an analogy between the structure of characters and inflection of words in European languages.^[a] Radicals are also sometimes called "classifiers", but this name is more commonly applied to grammatical classifiers (measure words).^[2]

^ Wieger 1927, p. 14.
^ Wilkinson 2013, p. 34.

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Chinese character radicals information

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Chinese character radicals

Kangxi radical

Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components

Chinese character IT

Radical 40

Radical 20

Radical 19

Radical 1

Radical 9

Radical 37

Radical 30

Radical 39

Radical 27

Radical 118

Radical 173

Chinese character orders

Radical 75

Radical 44

Radical 74

Simplified Chinese characters

Radical 31

Radical 61

Chinese character strokes

Chinese Character Simplification Scheme

Radical 47

Radical 162

Radical 70

Radical 94

Radical 21

Radical 67