Saturday, March 8, 2008

relating lists of Chinese radicals

I am interested in combining four lists:
  1. The 214 Kangxi radicals
  2. The 170 bushous in Ann's 5-volume Cracking Chinese Puzzles
  3. The 188 radicals in the Oxford Chinese-English dictionary
  4. The unified radical chart used in recent mainland China dictionaries, with 201 radicals and 59 subsidiary radicals; I have a copy from Daniel Kane's The Chinese Language: Its History and Current Usage
  5. The 226 radicals in Chinese Character Fast Finder by Laurence Matthews (I have the Simplified Character edition), which is taken from the Hanying Cidian ('A Chinese-English Dictionary'), Commercial Press, Beijing 1978.

A logical place to start would be the chart Unicode codepoints for the the Kangxi radicals on Wikipedia.

I would like to compile a list of regular phonetic families. These are clusters of characters containing identical phonetic components where the pronunciation is identical down to tone (nuclear family) of up to initial-and-rime (extended family).

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