All would work. 2 SIP, Unified 'section header') or indexing component is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary. Learn Chinese characters. for the  ″ dictionary to look for pinyin, and not Chinese characters or English. English and not pinyin or characters. When used with the abbreviated radical form of 邑 yì "city" it gives 都 dū "metropolis", also read as dōu "all-city" it appears on the right, but when used with the abbreviated radical form of 阜 fù "mound, hill" (as in 陸 lù "land") it appears on the left. F900–FAFF 人 and its compressed version 亻 contain only two strokes, so it will be near the beginning of the list. 128 As with the Chinese characters, you can direct the dictionary to find Katakana, Common 2FF0–2FFF 2 SIP 256 2 SIP A sample of the Far Eastern Chinese English Dictionary of mere artificial extraction of a stroke from sub-entries: Radicals sometimes instead play a phonetic role: In some cases, chosen radicals used phonetically coincidentally are in keeping, in step, semantically.[9]. Unified In modern practice, radicals are primarily used as lexicographic tools and as learning aids when writing characters. 115 Sometimes you’ll hear about Chinese radicals – these are the 214 official “pieces” set by an old Chinese dictionary. The dictionary lets you test yourself with a quiz. You can return the results in GB, Big5 or UTF-8 In order to further ease dictionary lookup, dictionaries sometimes list radicals both under the number of strokes used to write their canonical form and under the number of strokes used to write their variant forms. 64 Tone numbers are not required Not unified may get many unrelated entries that use the word in the English If one does not know, then the component on the left side or top is often a good first guess. Find the appropriate entry or experiment with different choices for steps 1 and 3. looking by the English word "computer", make sure you are searching by CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B 2 SIP Unified [7] These are loose rules, though, and exceptions are plenty. To search by radical/stroke order, please use Similar to Chinese Pinyin Table, the Chinese Radical Table - Simplified lists all the radicals for the simplified Chinese characters. The Academia Sinica's 漢字構形資料庫 Chinese character structure database[20] also works this way, returning only seven characters in this instance. In other words, the section heading was not commonly used as a semantic element...To sum up, the selection of a section heading is to some extent arbitrary. Unified CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A For example, in the character 好 , the radical 女 (nǚ, meaning female, woman) is on the left side of the character and in the character 闯 (chuăng; to rush, to break through) the radical 门 (mén, door) is outside. Sometimes, the radical may span more than one side, as in 園 = 囗 "enclosure" + 袁, or 街 = 行 "go, movement" + 圭. Using this "multi-component method"[19] a relatively new development enabled by computing technology, the user can select all of a character's components from a table and the computer will present a list of matching characters.  ″ Following the "section-header-and-stroke-count" method of Mei Yingzuo, characters are listed by their radical and then ordered by the number of strokes needed to write them. 4,149 Unified 5/7 2/4 Searches can be Mirror Sites: This Chinese/English dictionary provides a searchable interface FE30–FE4F 64 Not unified For the former Japanese province, see, Graphemes of Commonly-used Chinese Characters, Standard Typefaces for Chinese Characters, Standardized Forms of Words with Variant Forms, Differences between Shinjitai and Simplified characters, Wieger uses the terms "keys of the dictionary" and "the 214 keys of K'ang-hsi" for 部首, Woon gives an extensive list of the translations of 義符. Character Standard: 大陆 (Simplified) 香港 (Traditional) 台湾 (Traditional) Sign In Sign Up Favorites