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A rule of thumb is to look for the radical that seems to be more prominent. For those characters, it's pretty easy: In 烋, notice how 灬 spans the entire character horizontally: it is the radical (火) Same thing applies to 想 : 心 is the radical. As a bonus, in 强 which you have in your name, 弓 is the radical: notice how it spans the entire character vertically ...

There are many simplified characters' radical has nothing to do with the character itself,the only reason for this is just simplify characters,i have some examples(found on the web): 1) Without the heart, how to love 2) Looking back the village, the man has already left 3) No morals, because it is none of my business 4) The leader has ...

TL;DR : 饣 is the phonetic, not the signific. 饣, which is simplified from 食, is the radical of 饰/飾 only in the sense that it is listed that way in a Chinese dictionary. It is not the meaning-bearing part of the character. Here are two possible analyses. In both cases, 饣 is contributing to the pronunciation, not the meaning: 飾 = 食 (phonetic: shi2) + 布 ...

I can only provide a partial answer: Many of the characters used in the names of non-Han ethnic groups were originally derogatory. After the founding of the PRC, the government conceptualized New China as a 多民族国家, and they changed many of the characters that were perceived as derogatory. I don't know if this process started under the 国民党, as you suggest, ...

According to zdic.net, 饰 is formed of 巾, 人, and 食 (饣). 食 (饣) is the sound component, while the other portion suggests the meaning. The dictionary explains the character's components this way: 形声。从巾,从人,食声。人佩巾有装饰作用。 So, it's a 'pictophonetic' character which signifies a person wearing or adorned with a cloth, thus having the effect of decoration. If you're ...

The former interpretation is correct. Chinese characters are composed of components (some radicals, some phonetics, some neither). For many of the components, there are standard or widely used ways to refer to them. A common pattern is {component}+字+{旁/头/盖/底/儿/框}. (The last part refers to which part of the character it is--e.g., side, top, bottom, "frame") ...

On http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en you can see how a character evolved, the simplified and traditional characters. For example for 目. Another similar website is http://www.chineseetymology.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx . Their result for 目. Zdict is completely in Chinese: http://www.zdic.net/zd/zi/ZdicE7Zdic9BZdicAE.htm Here is another website in ...

The online chinese dictionary MDBG provides radical information for every character in its database. For instance, if you search for the character 天 (tiān) and click on the first result, the "Rad/Str" column reads 大 + 1, i.e., the radical 大 plus one stroke. Zhongwen.com also gives information on character decomposition. The entry for 洋 reads "Water 水 with 羊 ...

I'm also finding conflicting sources. For example according to the reference work Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary it's also 羊 + 女. Similarly, still in the same work, 美 is 羊 + 大. Often when characters are combined they are slightly changed to make the character more compact and I think that is what has happened here. However when I look at ...

The etymology part of the YellowBridge dictionary will show you this. Look up any character here, then click on etymology, and you will see the radicals in the 'etymology explorer'.

On wiki, this part is defined as "phonetic". I am not familiar with these jargons in English, but I thinks this one is acceptable. In your case,"艮"(gèn or gěn) is really a character. Edit: Add Chinese names for this part We call these characters “形声字”(in modern Chinese, many characters can be classified into this type). 形 means "form", referring to the ...

This question could probably best be answered by Wikipedia as there are many, many methods. One relatively common one is to look up the character by stroke count, then by stroke order. In this system, there are five types of strokes - horizontal stroke, vertical stroke, etc. and each is assigned a number. This is the method used to look up characters in ...

My favorite online dictionary, Nciku lets you draw in a character, and then tells you what it is. Super useful if you can't find out what the radical is, or just want a quicker way to look something out. My favorite iOS app, Pleco has this functionality, along with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) so you can hold up/take pictures of one or more ...

In short, ⺷ could be a variant of 羊 in the past, and is the radical form of 羊 when written in the upper of a character. Historically, ⺷ could be used as 羊 with the same meaning and pronunciation. 《字彙補》, a Qing Dynasty dictionary, gave the definition 『⺷，疑羊字之訛。』 that ⺷ could be a (possibly erroneous) variant of 羊. While Jin Dynasty's 《四聲篇海》 thinks that the ...

Your question is totally wrong on itself! “犭”（反犬旁/犬部） is a radical of Chinese Characters (Han-Zi,汉字) which is only for forming/making up some single Chinese Characters. In the creating era aka ancient times, people used “犭”(a radical, the variant of 犬 i.e. dogs) to make some Characters which is with some relation to beast such as ...

As mentioned in a question on searching by character parts, tatoeba.org has several tools related to character structure. The one you're interested in would be the one that explodes a character. It's not perfect, and your 天 example produced this: 一 大 大 一 大 大 However, 他 produced this: 亻 也 乜 丨 乚 乛 人 You can always go to the source data at wikimedia ...

You seem to assume that characters are only done by radicals, which is not true. Not all parts in a character are radicals. Consider for example the character 他. The radical is 亻 which is 人, the other part is not a radical; its appearance is the same as the character for "also": 也, but this is not a radical. Radicals are very useful, since you can ...

Victor Mair, the well known sinologist (and occasionally outspoken advocate of pinyin) consistently uses the word phonophore to describe the phonetic part of the character. If you start saying "phonophore" too, then there will be upwards of two people using the term. :-)

I know you already accepted the answer but I wanted to post something I just found. Actually I can't post it because I'm not sure about possible copyright stuff, so I'll just link you to this table in the English wikipedia for radicals. It describes visually the usual positions of radicals in Chinese characters.

The radical largely determines the meaning of the word. So if the word relates to lifting, hitting, pushing, etc., the radical is probably the hand radical, since these things are done by hand. If the word relates to feelings or emotions, think of the heart radical. Something made of wood probably has the tree radical in front. There are 214 radicals in all, ...

Just remember the common radicals: 烋 is with 灬 （四点水） 想 is with 心 （心字底） They are both very commmon radicals. You can look up radicals at the zdic.net site. Concerning your latter question, I think you could look for the less stroke one; but the situation which both parts are radical is rare. e.g. you can find 贾 with '贝' radical but not in '西' radical ...