Hero Doug Posted July 2, 2006 at 01:57 PM Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 at 01:57 PM This page and this page list's chinese radicals. However, this (卩) radical specifically (# 26 on Yellow Bridge) is listed as meaning "Seal". My girlfriend pointed out something interesting. Many of the radicals don't have an apparent meaning. I've tried translating many of them (such as 卩 or 厶) and couldn't get a definition, but the site's list the radicals as having a meaning. Why are they listing a meaning but none of the translation dictionaries (Like kingsoft 2006, Google, adsotrans), or a Chinese person (Fairly young) have one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furrball Posted July 2, 2006 at 07:50 PM Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 at 07:50 PM because those are not words nor characters in modern chinese. but they do often have the said meaning inside the character. this relates to character etymology (introduced, for example, in http://www.zhongwen.com or http://www.internationalscientific.org/ ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megacn Posted July 2, 2006 at 11:36 PM Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 at 11:36 PM I guess that seal means 印 which contains 卩, so they used "seal" as the name of 卩 to help people to memorize the 卩. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero Doug Posted July 3, 2006 at 02:40 AM Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 at 02:40 AM Good explination, thanks for the links. internationalscientific.org looks like it's dealing with this very specific topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melop Posted July 3, 2006 at 04:41 AM Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 at 04:41 AM I remember my teacher told me "卩" represents a knife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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