Re: [tlug] radicals and graphemes

[Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@example.com>]

[tlug-request@example.com (Tlug Digest, Vol 4, Issue 41) writes:]
"David J Iannucci" <jlinux@example.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > a radical IS a (typographic) grapheme!
>> > Am I misunderstanding something here ?
>> 
>> My intuition (not authoritative) would be that a radical is a grapheme,
>> but not every grapheme is a radical.  The radicals, after all, are
>> strictly only the classically-defined 215 (or so?) that you can find by
>> looking in Nelson or any other good kanji dictionary. On this
>> understanding, there are many recognizable chunks that one may find
>> appearing in multiple kanji, which one could call graphemes, but not
>> necessarily radicals.

Correct. In the context of kanji, hanzi, etc. radicals are graphemes,
but so are quite a few other recognizable patterns. If you look at
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1R  you'll see
all the 214, plus quite a few others that are not true radicals.

Cheers

Jim

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