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RADICAL REFERENCE

Explanation sources

    These notes distinguish dictionary glosses, indexing forms, and visible components. Source analyses can differ; citations do not establish a character’s historical origin.

    Example characters

    These characters contain this component or its noted alternate form. The component may give a meaning clue, a sound clue, or neither.

    Sources & meanings

    Short meanings adapted from Make Me a Hanzi, with editorial corrections. Examples were selected using Jun Da’s written-character frequency list as a guide.

    “Less common” means outside the first 3,500 characters in that corpus, or unranked. Meanings can change with context.

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