部首. Components of kanji, which may serve as a semantic or phonetic factor in the meaning or pronunciation of the character. Along with stroke count, radicals provide a way to index and give an ordering to kanji.
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Is the water radical sometimes three strokes and sometimes two strokes?
凍, does it have the water radical on the left? Why is this three strokes in some words and two strokes in others?
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How do you decide the alias of the radical for kanjis such as "字" and "旧"?
I recently came across a document that says the radical of "字" is "こへん". And I think that is wrong. Any "_へん" must be in the left region of a kanji (or is that just a guideline?).
The aliases for "子" are listed as: [こども、こ、こへん、こどもへん]. Which of these…
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Why is radical 10 (儿) called ひとあし and にんにょう?
For ひとあし I got mixed answers from different sources: some say it looks like human legs while according to others it's meaning + position, as for the other I could figure out why にん is there but is にょう a position indicator or is there anything more…
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Why is the radical of 午 listed as ⼗ and not ⼲?
I am having a lot of trouble determining the radicals and other components of various kanji. I figure that there's some historical reason, but does anyone know exactly why the radical of 午 is ⼗?
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Do radicals mean different things in Japanese and Chinese
Do any radicals have differing meanings between Japanese and Chinese?
(This is not a discussion post. Please say whether or not radicals have different meanings between languages and additional information if necessary.
If this is a duplicate, say…
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