Re: What should be radicalsI take it you mean chiht/qiè? That comes under the 'knife' radical. .... 'sword' isn't a radical, it comes under the 'side' variant of the radical 'knife'.
I don't know about Kanji, but in Cantonese characters NINE doesn't ever feature as a radical; certainly as an element, but so do a lot of other 'bits of characters'such as the right side of 'you' néih/ni ...
Michael
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From: John H. Jenkins
To: unicode@unicode.org
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: What should be radicals
At 11:02 PM -0700 7/8/01, §§Û§S§¶§Í§Â§¶§½ wrote:
Shouldn't HAN DIGIT NINE be a radical? I've seen it in a few places in kanji.
Also, what is the radical of "cut"? "Sword"?
I remember the "cut" chatacter by thinking that 7 swords do a lot of cutting.
Unicode is going to stick with the KangXi radical system. It's the best-known and most widely used. It's not flawless, goodness knows, but it's really the best choice under the circumstances.
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