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Jan 11 |
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Searching for characters by parts Thanks, this is the same as Don Kirkby's reply. The search is a bit simplistic (i.e. it doesn't handle the special situation that 米 already contains 木, and we're obviously looking for something that's contained in both separately), but it works. |
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Jan 11 |
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Searching for characters by parts Great finding @Don! I knew it was worth asking here. To explain why it returns so many that don't seem to contain 木： well, 木 is part of 米, and the site doesn't seem to handle this situation. I have corrected this in my own program (very easy to do), so it's a bit disappointing that a deployed dictionary site won't do it. |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes Thanks @fefe, sorry for the deleted comment |
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Jan 10 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes I accepted this answer because you gave me the key term to search for (异体字) as well as the corresponding encyclopaedia entry. |
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Jan 10 |
accepted | Characters which have several different shapes |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes As with any other script (may it be Roman, Greek, Cyrillic), I expect that Chinese characters have several ways to write them as well. You said that the shapes are standardized in mainland China. Do you know if this is the case in Taiwan, Hong Kong or Japan as well? Is there a standard for which variant should generally be chosen? |
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Jan 10 |
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Is there a Chinese WordNet? +1, looks interesting. I'll need to take a deeper look before accepting any answer to this question. |
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Jan 10 |
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Searching for characters by parts Thanks, I do use nciku often, even if drawing with the mouse is a bit inconvenient! |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes added 277 characters in body |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes @景洛弘 Huang's comment above your answers the question: I can ignore stylistic differences safely. This is not true if you're learning the Roman alphabet: both forms g ( gg) are commonly used, and need to be learned. |
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Jan 10 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes Re point 3., I mean the first image, not the second. I was wondering if this is regularly encountered when say, you're reading a newspaper in China, or can I safely ignore them and assume that I'll only see the standard variants if my computer is configures correctly and I don't start studying Japanese :-) |
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Jan 10 |
asked | Searching for characters by parts |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes @景洛弘 Also note that I have already adjusted both my operating system (WinXP) and my browser to prefer Chinese fonts over Japanese for CJK glyphs, so it's not a technical problem for me. It's a not a technical question, it's simply about why these variants exist, and how they affect me as a learner. See the three explicit questions in the second section of my post. |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes @景洛弘 This question is not about the browser (also, this is not a bug, what if I were learning Japanese?). This question is about why there are several shapes for these characters, are all these shapes used in China too, or some are Japanese-only, etc. In Traditional Chinese fonts I sometimes see the same variant of 直 as in Japanese fonts, so this must be used in Chinese too ... |
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Jan 10 |
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Characters which have several different shapes edited title |
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Jan 10 |
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Is there a Chinese WordNet? added 84 characters in body |
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Jan 10 |
asked | Is there a Chinese WordNet? |
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Jan 10 |
asked | Characters which have several different shapes |
