Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development
by GordonS on Friday January 22, 2016 @06:51AM
(#10952176)
Actually, most of the radicals existed long before the Shuōwén Jiězì, as recurring graphic elements[1].
They might not have been called 'radicals', or been used to look up dictionaries, but they certainly existed.
[1] Wilkinson, Endymion (2013), Chinese History: A New Manual, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, ISBN 978-0-674-06715-8
They might not have been called 'radicals', or been used to look up dictionaries, but they certainly existed.
[1] Wilkinson, Endymion (2013), Chinese History: A New Manual, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, ISBN 978-0-674-06715-8