list of characters and radicals.

[laohu489]

I help edit content for MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary and we have a great idea to help simplify our radical search system. What we are thinking about is conceptually similar to NJStar radical lookup. I thought I had a great idea until I was told about NJStar. What we need is a list of every character and the radicals that it is comprised of. Ideally, it would look something like:

我 = 手+戈

玖 = 王+久

黎 = 禾+勿+人+水

etc...

Does anyone know where such a thing is? If such a list or database exists, it would be used to make the site easier and simpler to use for character seaches. I think it would make a great addition to the site, what about the rest of you?

Thanks in advance.

[chinesetools]

You can try some of the resources listed at http://www.chinesecomputing.com/news/?p=16

You can see this in action at the MandarinTools character dictionary:

http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

Make sure "Components" is selected in "In Results Show". Then look up a character. The last column will show the components of the character. You can then click on one of the components to see other characters containing that same component.

[laohu489]

Thanks for the links!

[AndreasR]

The file

http://glyph.iso10646hk.net/doc/normal_char.txt

mentioned in the links above looks interesting (see below).

It's supposed to show the original character and compounds info.

How can I get from the code like "2_FE52" to an actual printable character,

for example using excel and vba?

I'm trying to make a little dictionary application (that I can use offline) that lists for a given character all compounds and their meaning. Or is there something like this around already?

Thanks

Andreas

# Document Name: Normal_char.txt.

# Format: Unicode.

#

# Contents: Table of the Unified CJK Characters

# (20902 and Extension A) and HKSCS Characters.

# (Excl. simplified Chinese Characters, Singapore

# Characters, Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese only

# Characters)

#

# UCODE: Unicode, The ExtA and 20902 Characters are with

# "0-xxxx" and rest are with "2-xxxx".

# A few characters are with "X-xxxx". Those

# characters has no SuperCJK_111 code yet.

# UCS3: UCS3.0, similar with Unicode, but the "2-xxxx"/"X-xxxx"

# are replaced with PUA unicodes.

# HKSCS: 0 = is hkscs character,

# 1 = is NOT hkscs character.

# COMPLIST: The decomposition serial of the character,

# The serial consists of the CC-codes of the

# basic Hong Kong components separated by "/".

# (see Hong Kong Kai/Song Basic Components Table)

#

# UPDATED: 3 April 2002

Ucode UCS3 HKSCS COMPLIST

0-3400 3400 1 1_2EC0/0_2F00

0-3401 3401 1 2_AEB5

0-3405 3405 1 5_01101

0-3406 3406 1 3_0330

0-340C 340C 1 2_FE52/3_0308

0-3416 3416 1 0_2F20/0_2F1D/1_2E83

0-341C 341C 1 5_04231/3_0339

0-3421 3421 1 3_0339/0_2F7D/5_2F241

0-3424 3424 1 3_0339/0_2F17/3_0295/5_4E371

[jlau]

You can already explore the components of a characters and drill down successively with the YellowBridge Dictionary. The character decomposition is displayed in the form of an explorer tree. The phonetic portion of the character (if there is one) and the radical are also highlighted.

Here's a sample result for 國.

You can also search by any of the components, even restrict the search by the character structure. However, this dictionary is only available online.

[AndreasR]

Thanks for the link that's very cool. Too bad one cannot use it offline.

[Celso Pin]

take a look at www.zhongwen.com