Friday, 28 December 2012

nehen kanji


A page of basic ネ偏 nehen kanji : http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/nehen-kanji.html


礼 社 祈 

祉 祖 祝 

神 祥 視 

禍 禅 福 

Most are either links to stroke order and other pages at jisho.org or (if in simple rows) have a roll-over title with ON-YOMI and kun-yomi or at least one English equivalent.




Monday, 24 December 2012

英 kanji compounds


http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%8B%B1#Compounds

The English wiktionary has some excellent pages for kanji compounds.

The page above is for  英

英気 (えいき, eiki)
英語 (えいご, eigo)
英国 (えいこく, eikoku)
英断 (えいだん, eidan)
英和 (えいわ, eiwa)
英知 (えいち, eichi)
英智 (えいち, Eichi)
英雄 (えいゆう, eiyū)
英霊 (えいれい, eirei)
石英 (せきえい, sekiei)  quartz

I might add

英会話 (えいかいわ, eikaiwa)
English conversation ( and so, in context, such a school or course)

The page denshi jisho has several expressions ending in 英

Currently Google translate offers only 'British' in English for 英 and so that is all that can be given for other languages ( but even denshi jisho has anglais for French, but not britannique !)

Possibilities :

花咲く  bloom, infloresence
輝かしい brilliant  but see 賢い and several cognate expressions

compare: 開花





Friday, 21 December 2012

Unicode radicals for kanji 部首 ぶしゅ ブシュ


Wikipedia has a page of Unicode values for radicals.

But they have ⼿ for the tehen bushū or 部首 (ぶしゅ) when I am looking for the left-side component of Henshall 682 "pick up", i.e.,  採 (サイ / と.る) which is 扌.

Another article says 扌 was added later as a "redundant semantic determinative."