- How Many Characters Are There Where The Radical Is The Same As The Main Component?
Example:
This question is definitely answerable as there are only a certain amount of radicals.
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1Here is one: 冰 (ice) both parts mean water.– TzuCommented May 7, 2015 at 4:36
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(钅金) is a SunmanPUA character incase anyone is wondering.– Mou某 ♦Commented May 7, 2015 at 5:28
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1there are also 从，林– TzuCommented May 7, 2015 at 15:11
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1if you extend the search over repetitious characters, there are many more– flowCommented May 7, 2015 at 17:05
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1@Maroon not quite right, as the line between 'simplified' and 'traditional' characters is somewhat blurry, cf. 网, which is really the original pictograph used for later 網, and, likewise, 从 is the original form of 從. The latter one is used throughout the 說文解字.– flowCommented May 8, 2015 at 14:14
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A quick perusal of my database gives me
u-cjk/6299 抙 ⿰扌手
u-cjk/726a 牪 ⿰牜牛
u-cjk/72be 犾 ⿰犭犬
u-cjk/73cf 珏 ⿰王玉
u-cjk/8aa9 誩 ⿰言言
u-cjk/8e00 踀 ⿰𧾷足
u-cjk-xa/3908 㤈 ⿰忄心
u-cjk-xb/201a7 𠆧 ⿰亻人
u-cjk-xb/23c99 𣲙 ⿰氵水
u-cjk/9342 鍂 ⿰金金
(considering only Unicode code points). I tested against the RegEx 氵水|礻示|⺬示|釒金|钅金|王玉|忄心|𥫗竹|讠言|言言|冫氷|扌手|𧾷足|⻗雨|爫爪|亻人|火灬|犭犬|牜牛|飠食|𩙿食|饣食, which may be incomplete.
In related news, a search for 水水|示示|金金|王王|玉玉|心心|竹竹|手手|足足|雨雨|爪爪|人人|火火|犬犬|牛牛|食食 brings up, amongst others, these:
u-cjk/4ece 从 ⿰人人
u-cjk/6c9d 沝 ⿰水水
u-cjk/708f 炏 ⿰火火
u-cjk/73a8 玨 ⿰王王
u-cjk/7958 祘 ⿰示示
u-cjk-xa/3e5c 㹜 ⿰犬犬
u-cjk-xb/225f0 𢗰 ⿰心心
u-cjk-xb/22a92 𢪒 ⿰手手
u-cjk-xb/24519 𤔙 ⿱爪⿰爪爪
u-cjk-xb/24934 𤤴 ⿰玉玉
u-cjk-xb/25d12 𥴒 ⿱竹⿰竹竹
some of which may violate your expectations about how to correctly write characters, as the usual positional variants are not used in these forms.
I suppose you are looking for a list of such characters in Simplified Chinese. There is probably more, but here you go.
Notes
- I added extra lists just for completeness. Feel free to add to it!
- By "non-radical" I mean the identical parts are not a radical themselves.
- Top-bottom Radical Pair
炎、多、昌、二、亖、畕、仌、歨（not 走）
- Left-right Radical Pair
林、双、从、朋、赫、竝、孖
- Top-down Non-radical Pair
出、哥、爻、串
- Left-right Non-radical Pair
囍、吕、二、羽、兢、非、弱
- Three-character/radical Words
淼、鑫、焱、垚、森、众、磊、品、晶、羴、鱻、犇、厽、惢、掱、聶、姦、畾、尛、孨、毳、蟲、麤、猋、骉、龘、赑、轟、矗、嚞、芔、歮、雥、叒、皛、馫、靐、飍、飝、刕、譶、毳、劦、舙、厵、灥
- Four-character/radical Words
燚、朤、茻、叕
answered May 7, 2015 at 17:36
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1btw there's a looooong list of these @ chinese.stackexchange.com/a/5353/3674– flowCommented May 8, 2015 at 11:54
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