“Four-part” composition of characters

Question

I would like to compile a list of characters where you can draw two lines in a + shape, running through the center of the character to cleanly separate it into four "components." Some leeway must be given when writing them.

For example, 疑, 殺, and 豔 fit my criteria. For 疑, I wouldn't call ヒ or マ Chinese real Chinese characters, but they are Japanese katakana so they must be related (maybe historically) to Chinese. So the character qualifies to me. I only studied traditional characters so there could be even more simplified ones.

I'm not even sure if there's a term for this type of character geometry. There might be a workbook somewhere that has collected such characters.

Answer 1

I don't know if there's a list for characters with distinct components - I imagine that will be pretty hard to define precisely - but there are indeed lists for characters with "repeated" components （同字合体字, or 疊字)

On Wikipedia, there is a list for words with four repeated components (for interest only - most of these characters are not used in daily settings).

Answer 2

As mentioned in this answer, there's a WikiCommons project to describe the composition of Chinese characters. If you search that table for entries with 叕 in the third column, you'll find a few, including 叕, 朤, and 燚. If you want to find characters with four different components arranged that way, then you'll probably have to do some coding. You'd have to find all characters that have 吅 in the third column, and then both components have 吕. There might be some in the opposite order, as well.