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Find Chinese characters by radical and stroke number, with both traditional and simplified forms. Learn more about radicals, their meanings and variations, from Wikipedia and MDBG dictionary.
Find detailed information about Chinese characters (simplified and traditional) by radical, pinyin and character. Browse more than 90 000 words and vocabulary in this online tool.
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What’s so radical about this method? Take 刀 – the knife/sword radical. By understanding the meaning of this radical we can guess what the character might be related to…! Studying radicals enables you to do this and it also makes it possible for you to look up a character in the dictionary. Think about it! Learning Chinese radicals will also allow y...
This means that every character contains a radical. Some radicals can in fact also be characters, like the word for mouth (口, kǒu), and they are used in the formation of other characters. So, you should rather think of radicals as components of a character. For example, in the character 好, the radical 女 (nǚ, meaning female, woman) is on the left si...
The radicals are also distorted and changed when they are combined in characters. These are called the variants of the radical. So, let’s see what some of the most common Chinese radicals are and how they change: 1. 人 “man” → 亻 on the left (used in 你 – you and 他– he) 2. 心 “heart” (used in the meaning of feeling, mental activities) → 忄on the left (u...
Two amazing downloads for you here! First we’ve got our beautifully designed Radicals PDF which you can save to your computer and also print out if you wish. If you want to go one step further and get a bigger version for your wall… read on!
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Want to put your knowledge of Chinese radicals and their variants to the test? Then have a go at our Free Radical Quiz!! Why not let us know your score below? So clearly you enjoy learning Chinese but ever been curious about Korean and Japanese as well? If you check these out: 1. Japanese vs Korean vs Mandarin– Find out which is really the hardest ...
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A comprehensive guide to understanding and using Chinese radicals, the components of characters that indicate their meaning and pronunciation. Includes a list of 214 radicals with audio, a free PDF poster, and a quiz to test your knowledge.
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A comprehensive dictionary of Chinese characters with look-up by English, pinyin, Cantonese, and radical/stroke. You can also search by unicode, gb, big5, and character type (traditional or simplified).
The 214 Kangxi radicals (Chinese: 康熙 Kāng xī 部首 bù shǒu ; pinyin: Kāngxī bùshǒu), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals (部首 bù shǒu ) of Chinese characters. The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditional Chinese ...
The radical table contains both traditional and simplified radicals, some radicals appear multiple times due to different stroke count of variants. For more information on radicals, please read Radical (Chinese character) on Wikipedia.
