Kanji software/site with bushu/radical/other kanji reference

[Jubinell]

Hi,

I've been looking for some time for a Kanji website/software that provides the bushu, radicals and contained kanjis for a particular Kanji.

For example, in this ideal software if I were to look up ﾂ静? I would be able to see links to:

1) Bushu: ﾅ陳ｾ
2) Radicals: ﾅ陳ｾ, 邃｢X, ﾅ津ｻ
3) Contained Kanjis: ﾅ陳ｾ, ﾅ津ｻ, ﾅ短, 邃｢[

Anybody knows of such software / website?

 

[Toritoribe]

How about this site?

漢字部首検索くん(all in Japanese)
http://mobile.shinsv.dyndns.org/bushu/

Enter the kanji you're looking up into the box next to "漢字", and click the "検索" button. Then you can get the radical of it. (The site is for cell phones, so some links might not be able to work well on PC.)


BTW, although 兌 is indeed a component of 説, it's not the radical but just the 旁[tsukuri]. Radical originally refers to 部首[Bushu].

The term radical is most commonly used to refer to the section headers of a Chinese dictionary (部首), also known as index keys or classifiers.
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Another common misunderstanding is that radical means any component of a character. But this is inconsistent with all of its various historical uses.
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So great is the confusion among the above four uses, that some have inferred that radical must simply mean any component or element of a character. This is of course fundamentally incorrect.

Radical (Chinese characters) - Wikipedia

 

[Jubinell]

How about this site?
ﾅ?ﾂｿﾅｽﾅ｡窶｢窶敘ｽﾃｱﾅ椎ｸﾂ催ｵ窶堋ｭ窶堙ｱ(all in Japanese)
Enter the kanji you're looking up into the box next to "ﾅ?ﾂｿﾅｽﾅ｡", and click the "ﾅ椎ｸﾂ催ｵ" button. Then you can get the radical of it. (The site is for cell phones, so some links might not be able to work well on PC.)

Thanks for the site. When I look up ﾂ静? I only get the radical ﾅ陳ｾ. What about the other "components" of this Kanji?

 

[nekojita]

On the WWWJDIC search-by-radical page there is a box to paste a kanji in which will give you the 'elements' (at the bottom)
WWWJDIC
e.g. it lists four elements for 説

You can use this to look for similar kanji, e.g. you can put in the elements that make up the right hand side of 説 into the radical search and it will give you this output: 兌 悦 商 脱 税 蛻 説 鋭 閲

 

[niktos]

There is soft, which exactly fit to your description - yarxy.
But there's problem for you, that it's originally russian.
susi.ru/yarxi - susi.ru/yarxi/yarxi-setup.exe
There is english version, jishop, but it's paid.
jishop-software.com

 

[Jubinell]

There is soft, which exactly fit to your description - yarxy.
But there's problem for you, that it's originally russian.
susi.ru/yarxi - susi.ru/yarxi/yarxi-setup.exe
There is english version, jishop, but it's paid.
jishop-software.com

Wow this Yarxy program is great! And so is its English counterpart jishop.

One question that I have...I've been trying for a long time to find two things about these sub-radicals (elements if you will):

1) their text forms, preferably Unicode friendly (copy/paste/search-able)
2) their meanings/names (some ways to recognize them if they cannot be copied as text)

I know that the number of these elements probably differ between sources, but anything you can give would be great. Right now from Yarxy I'm able to save an image of the elements as .bmp but no text. The other source that I know that has text is Jim Breen's multi-radical search page, but the number of elements there are severely limited, and the rarer ones are all in image format.

Any more ideas?

 

[nekojita]

Try the Japanese wiki page on 部首. It gives a list of radicals by stroke order and names for them, most have text versions even if the WWWJDIC doesn't, e.g. they have 艹 , 亻, etc.
部首 - Wikipedia

The ones marked 'jp' are Japanese simplifications of a radical, the ones marked 'cn' are Chinese variations. You should look at the list also of radical positions in order to understand some of the names, e.g.:
口 - くち、くちへん "へん" radicals are on the left, e.g. くちへん in 咲く. But it's くち in 和.

 

[niktos]

I don't know anything about cope\paste or search of radicals.
But you can see radical meaning by bringing on it and wait a while, unfortunately not all of them, but most.

 

[kintopp]

One practical problem in the way of copy/paste of elements is that many Japanese fonts don't offer full support for radicals. The glyphs (i.e. the actual visual representations of the radical by the font) just aren't there. This is why so many learning/teaching sites represent them as hand-drawn graphics. One really good (and free) font with excellent support for radicals is M+ (M+ FONTS). I believe this is also the default Japanese font used in Ubuntu. A while ago I had to test glyph support for bushu for Kanji alive (I'm one of the developers). Here's the old test page for this (Radical tests with M+ (Release 56 Build 23.06.13) - it'll take a while to load since it first downloads the M+ light webfont). The glyphs in bold are being displayed either in Hiragino Kaku and/or Meiryo depending on your computer set-up.

Kanji alive web app can show you (and let you search for) the radical of a kanji in various ways but it won't show its "elements". Sensei Lory (with whom I worked.. I don't know Japanese myself) decided against this for pedagogic reasons. Someone following up on the OP's question might also find this page listing the traditional radicals useful (The 214 Traditional Kanji Radicals and their Meanings | Kanji Alive). Plus, in the last few months I noticed that the Wikipedia entries on radicals have been expanded quite a bit:

List of kanji radicals by stroke count - Wikipedia
Kangxi radical - Wikipedia
List of kanji radicals by frequency - Wikipedia

 

[kintopp]

One practical problem in the way of copy/paste of elements is that many Japanese fonts don't offer full support for radicals. The glyphs (i.e. the actual visual representations of the radical by the font) just aren't there. This is why so many learning/teaching sites represent them as hand-drawn graphics.

In response to the problem I described above we've released Japanese Radicals, a free, open-source font based on Source Han Sans which offers support for all Japanese radicals including the so-called "lost radicals" not included in the relevant Unicode tables.