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The correct term is just components. Characters aren't comprised of radicals (部首; section header). Radicals are just modern stroke-shapes used as indexing tools to mark the heading (首) of dictionary sections (部), equivalent to the first letter of an English word when you look it up in a dictionary ("A", "B", "C", etc.), and may not be related to the character at all.

Since a character isn't indexed under more than one radical in a dictionary, we also don't speak of characters having multiple radicals, just like English words don't have more than one first letter.


時期
字體
字形 參考資料
戰國
兼 11
曾侯竹簡
兼 秝部
說文解字
東漢
兼 衡方碑
兼

「兼」 is a picture of a hand 「又」 simultaneously grasping two two cerealcereal plants 「禾禾」「禾禾」, indicating the meaning simultaneously, concurrently.

Be wary of the shape changes in 「兼」 over the course of history: 「又」 is still present in the middle of 「兼」 and now looks like 「⋺」, while the top of 「禾禾」 has been reduced to 「䒑」.

The correct term is just components. Characters aren't comprised of radicals (部首; section header). Radicals are just modern stroke-shapes used as indexing tools to mark the heading (首) of dictionary sections (部), equivalent to the first letter of an English word when you look it up in a dictionary ("A", "B", "C", etc.), and may not be related to the character at all.

Since a character isn't indexed under more than one radical in a dictionary, we also don't speak of characters having multiple radicals, just like English words don't have more than one first letter.


時期
字體
字形 參考資料
戰國
兼 11
曾侯竹簡
兼 秝部
說文解字
東漢
兼 衡方碑
兼

「兼」 is a picture of a hand 「又」 simultaneously grasping two cereal plants 「禾禾」, indicating the meaning simultaneously, concurrently.

Be wary of the shape changes in 「兼」 over the course of history: 「又」 is still present in the middle of 「兼」 and now looks like 「⋺」, while the top of 「禾禾」 has been reduced to 「䒑」.

The correct term is just components. Characters aren't comprised of radicals (部首; section header). Radicals are just modern stroke-shapes used as indexing tools to mark the heading (首) of dictionary sections (部), equivalent to the first letter of an English word when you look it up in a dictionary ("A", "B", "C", etc.), and may not be related to the character at all.

Since a character isn't indexed under more than one radical in a dictionary, we also don't speak of characters having multiple radicals, just like English words don't have more than one first letter.


時期
字體
字形 參考資料
戰國
兼 11
曾侯竹簡
兼 秝部
說文解字
東漢
兼 衡方碑
兼

「兼」 is a picture of a hand 「又」 simultaneously grasping two cereal plants 「禾禾」, indicating the meaning simultaneously, concurrently.

Be wary of the shape changes in 「兼」 over the course of history: 「又」 is still present in the middle of 「兼」 and now looks like 「⋺」, while the top of 「禾禾」 has been reduced to 「䒑」.

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The correct term is just components. Characters aren't comprised of radicals (部首; section header). Radicals are just modern stroke-shapes used as indexing tools to mark the heading (首) of dictionary sections (部), equivalent to the first letter of an English word when you look it up in a dictionary ("A", "B", "C", etc.), and may not be related to the character at all.

Since a character isn't indexed under more than one radical in a dictionary, we also don't speak of characters having multiple radicals, just like English words don't have more than one first letter.


時期
字體
字形 參考資料
戰國
兼 11
曾侯竹簡
兼 秝部
說文解字
東漢
兼 衡方碑
兼

「兼」 is a picture of a hand 「又」 simultaneously grasping two cereal plants 「禾禾」, indicating the meaning simultaneously, concurrently.

Be wary of the shape changes in 「兼」 over the course of history: 「又」 is still present in the middle of 「兼」 and now looks like 「⋺」, while the top of 「禾禾」 has been reduced to 「䒑」.