Hello again, I would be really grateful for any reply or at least pointers to relevant information about this topic (stroke-order data in Unihan, see my previous message below).
Or is there any other appropriate place to discuss this? Thank you, -- Adam On 2014/02/28, at 19:56, Adam Nohejl <a...@nohejl.name> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am comparing radical data for CJK characters from different sources, > including the Unihan database. According to the Unihan documentation* the > kRSUnicode radical should correspond to kRSKangXi radical, which in turn > should be based on the Kang Xi dictionary. > > Is there any explanation for the following discrepancies? Did I miss any > other rules or reasoning behind the content of these two fields? > > Examples of the discrepancies: > > (1) A very common character for "most, maximum". > U+6700 kRSKangXi 73.8 > U+6700 kRSUnicode 13.10 > > (2) A funny character for autumn containing the turtle component. > U+9F9D kRSKangXi 115.16 > U+9F9D kRSKanWa 115.16 > U+9F9D kRSUnicode 213.5 > > There are also characters that actually are not included in the Kang Xi > dictionary**, but the Unihan data contain both a purported Kang Xi radical > and in addition to that a _different_ Unicode radical. > > (3) The simplified turtle character (commonly assigned to the traditional > radical #213): > U+4E80 kRSKangXi 213.0 > U+4E80 kRSUnicode 5.10 > > (4) Character with the radical #72/73 at the top, i.e. IMHO an arbitrary > decision, but unexpectedly the fields differ: > U+66FB kRSKangXi 72.7 > U+66FB kRSUnicode 73.7 > > - - - > > [*] <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/tr38-8.html>: "Property: kRSUnicode > // Description: (...) The first value is intended to reflect the same radical > as the kRSKangXi field and the stroke count of the glyph used to print the > character within the Unicode Standard." > > [**] The two characters are missing from the '89 edition of Kang Xi (which > should be the same as used for Unihan) according to search on this site: > <http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl> _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
