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The Academia Sinica's 漢字構形資料庫 Chinese character structure database [20] also works this way, returning only seven characters for this query. Harbaugh's Chinese Characters dictionary [21] similarly allows searches based on any component. Some modern computer dictionaries allow the user to draw characters with a mouse, stylus or ...
Radical 208 meaning "rat" or "mouse" is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical .
Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...
The ancient shell end bone style Chinese character shǔ (鼠), for rat/mouse. In Chinese tradition, the first year was the equivalent of 2637 BCE (although others give other dates). The Prime Minister of the first emperor, Huangdi (also known as the Yellow Emperor), is said in this year to have worked out the sixty-year zodiacal cycle.
"Chinese Character Component Standard of GB13000.1 Character Set for Information Processing" (信息处理用 GB13000.1 字符集汉字部件规范) is a standard released on February 1, 1997, by the National Language Commission of China. It includes a "List of Chinese Character Primitive Components". The list contains 560 primitive components.
A Chinese character can alternatively be input by form-based encoding. Most Chinese characters can be divided into a sequence of components in writing order. There are a few hundred basic components, [111] much less than the number of characters. By representing each component with an English letter and putting them in writing order of the ...
The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon, [1] and refers to a version of the dragon in each East Asian culture: Chinese dragon, Lóng in Chinese; Japanese dragon, Ryū or Tatsu in Japanese; Korean dragon, Ryong or Yong in Korean; Vietnamese dragon, Rồng in Vietnamese; It may also refer to the Dragon as it appears in the ...
Chinese characters are logograms constructed with strokes. Over the millennia a set of generally agreed rules have been developed by custom. Minor variations exist between countries, but the basic principles remain the same, namely that writing characters should be economical, with the fewest hand movements to write the most strokes possible.