Questions about phonetic, semantic, or other components of characters.
Questions tagged [character-components]
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What’s the difference between 円 and 月 as character components?
What’s the difference between 円 and 月 as character components?
If we look at 青 and 靑.
The bottom of 青 is:
月
and if we look at 靑, it's bottom is:
円
靑 is said to be an 异体字 of 青 and zisea says that
拼音qing1【青】的旧字型
just old form.
What’s the…
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Are there lists of phonetic components and semantic components?
It is pretty much as the question said. I am pretty much aware of the facts that radicals are just dictionary headers so that the characters under the headers can not really have the exact forms as the headers represent and components can not really…
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What does "GHTJK" stand for in this part of a Wiktionary: entry: "...composition ⿸丆卜(GHTJK) or ⿻丆"
I generally understand the Ideographic Description Characters (IDSes) and the Ideographic Description Sequences,for CJK strokes and components but the abbreviation GHTJK in this entry and GHTK in others has me baffled:
"Han character
不 (radical 1,…
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What is the significance of component ?
This component shows up as a component of both 隠 and 穏. What is the significance of this component?
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The relationship between 羞 and 醜
Since 醜 is the traditional version of 丑, why is the lower part of a traditional 羞 丑 but not 醜?
I found this 羞,
(會意兼形聲。據甲骨文,以手持羊,表示進獻。小篆從羊,從醜,醜亦聲。“醜”是手的訛變。本義:進獻)
But it doesn't explain why it is 丑.
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How do I understand Ni (you) character correctly?
It says
http://zhongwen.com/bushou.htm
If I search for you I got this
It consists of 2 characters
The first is person and you. The 2 characters are very different than the character in character ni. I supposed the ren is in alternate version. I…
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What's the meaning of the hat like character on top of 尔
According to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%94#Chinese
It is
this character https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%BA%88
It simply means knife but the wiktionary entry is very short.
Google translate says that it's meaning is indeed knife and…
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Explanation of character decomposition for 缺
https://hanziyuan.net/#%E7%BC%BA
Scrolling down to the "Character decomposition 字形分解" section, we see
Compound 缺
from container 缶 fǒu and
phonetic foot-hand 夬叏 guài.
I don't understand what "夬叏" is. It seems from LINE Dict that they mean the same…
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