Image showing "√煮 = ±火" in a cartoonish font, with 煮 in blue and 火 in red, and the rest of the text in black.
Why do Chinese characters have only one “radical”?
For example, 煮 (Mandarin zhǔ 'boil') has only the [FIRE] radical 灬 which is an abbreviated form of 火.
√煮 = ±火
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Excerpt of draft index for Zev Handel's book Chinese Characters Across Asia, with entries from Cantonese to China National Committee for Terminology in Science and Technology.
Excerpt of draft index for Zev Handel's book Chinese Characters Across Asia, with entries from Chosun Ilbo to Cyrillic script
Excerpt of draft index for Zev Handel's book Chinese Characters Across Asia, with entries from Demotic to Du Ponceau, Peter S.
📖 The index for my new book, Chinese Characters Across Asia, is done! Fortunately, I was able to get some invaluable professional help in compiling it.
The images are three random excerpts from the index. (More on the book in thread below.)
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Working on the Character Locator index for my forthcoming book.
Ch = Standard Chinese, C = Cantonese, J = Japanese, K = Korean, V = Vietnamese, Z = Zhuang, E = English
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