I have found Unicodes for some kanji components that are not themselves kanji (at least as far as my very old Nelson goes):

丶 U4e36
亠 U4ea0
冂 U5182
冖 U5196
冫 U51ab
凵 U51f5
卩 U5369
宀 U5b80
广 U5e7f
癶 U7676
鬥 U9b25

These happen to be all traditional radicals, but for all I know there may exist Unicodes for kanji components that are neither traditional radicals nor kanjis themselves.

Does anyone know of a comprehensive listing of just all those kanji "fragments" for which there is a Unicode?

TIA!

Radicals: http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E80.pdf
Stroke : http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U31C0.pdf

There are many other components in the full unicode CJK spec, I've spent hours trawling through it before and found some interesting stuff.

CJK Charts: http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4E00.pdf

meolox Wrote:Radicals: http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E80.pdf
Stroke : http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U31C0.pdf

There are many other components in the full unicode CJK spec, I've spent hours trawling through it before and found some interesting stuff.

CJK Charts: http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4E00.pdf

That's just awesome. I'm going to be doing some trawling myself. It'd be great if all of Heisig's primitives were in there one way or another... (I know about the Pangolin font, but if it can be done all with Unicode it would be better, IMO.)

Thanks!

meolox Wrote:Radicals: http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E80.pdf

BTW, there are some pretty obscure radicals in there, like U2EE1 (⻡) or U2EF1 (⻱), which looks a lot like your avatar, but isn't quite it. (For some reason, when I paste the characters from TextEdit into the message, they come out teeny, and I have not figured out how to make them larger...) They're not among the standard radicals in Nelson, AFAICT.

Neither of those are radicals... Are you referring to the top of the first one? That is just a variant of 川, as seen in 巡 and 災. The second character is just a traditional (Chinese) form of 亀, which is a radical (#213). In any case, neither of those characters exist in Japanese as shown.

There aren't obscure radicals, there is a definitive list of just 214, unless you go to a character classification system older than ~400 years ago.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kangxi_radicals

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Nevermind, I see where you found them now. In any case they aren't "real" radicals, just simplifications or historical local variations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicode_radicals

Another (more exhaustive?) list of radicals with unicodes. They also have an English unicode name. I wonder if this is official.

http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/radical-names.html

Transparent_Aluminium Wrote:Another (more exhaustive?) list of radicals with unicodes. They also have an English unicode name. I wonder if this is official.

http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/radical-names.html

The official Unicode names are in the unicode.org PDFs that gbf345 linked to. It looks like that table has abbreviated them a little, eg 0x2F14 is "KANGXI RADICAL SPOON", not "Spoon", and 0x2EED is "CJK RADICAL J-SIMPLIFIED TOOTH", not "J-Simplified tooth".

Transparent_Aluminium Wrote:Another (more exhaustive?) list of radicals with unicodes. They also have an English unicode name. I wonder if this is official.

http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/radical-names.html

Thanks!