Re: What should be radicals

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Title: Re: What should be radicals

I 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: John H. Jenkins To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:05 PM Subject: Re: What should be radicals At 11:02 PM -0700 7/8/01, §�§Û§Š§¶§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. -- ===== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/