Re: Your vote on a common global language

From: Lee Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: 05 Dec 2004 22:17:07 +0800

>>>>> "Miguel" == Miguel Cruz <mnc@admin.u.nu> writes:

    Miguel> Holly J. Sommer <sommer@mugs.net> wrote:
>> "Hatunen" <hatuunen@cox.net> wrote:
>>> I'm curious now as to what the generic term for Chinese
>>> characters would be.
>> Radicals?

    Miguel> Only 200-some Chinese characters are themselves radicals;
    Miguel> the rest are built upon radicals.

Yes and no. No when you take the _broad_ sense of "radical", which
can refer to any spatially coherent subpart of a character. In this
sense, a radical does not have to belong to the 214 Kang1xi1 radicals,
which is what you meant. Those 214 Kang1xi1 radicals is usually what
"radical" means _in the narraw sense_. But even the 214-set is not
_the_ convention. There are other conventions of which radicals
constitue the set of "elementary radicals". Kang1xi1 is just the most
widely adopted convention. 

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