Chinese Characters (Hanzi)

Non-official Variants

Character Decomposition

The vast majority of Chinese characters are composed of radicals and other characters. There have been attempts to systematically define characters by their components, but none seem to have stuck around.

Defining characters by their components would solve issues related to CJK unification, in which identical Unicode code points are rendered differently depending on linguistic context. (澀/涩/渋/澁 is an example of a character that varies greatly by region)


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