# # K R A D F I L E # # Copyright 2001/2007 Michael Raine, James Breen and the Electronic # Dictionary Research & Development Group at Monash University. # See: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edrdg/licence.html # for permissions for use and redistribution. # # This is the data file from which the "radkfile" is made, which in turn # drives the multi-radical lookup method in XJDIC, WWWJDIC and possibly # other dictionary and related software. # # The file is based on work done in 1994/1995 by Michael Raine in which he # analyzed all the JIS1/2 kanji and identified the constituent radicals and # other common elements, with the intention of facilitating the selection of # kanji within a dictionary program by identifying multiple elements. # The file was revised by Jim Breen in September 1995. Further revisions were # done in 1998/9 at the suggestion of Wolfgang Conrath, then a revision was # carried out in 2001 using suggestions from Yutaka Ohno based on a similar # decomposition made by Kobayashi. Further amendments were made in July # 2001 after suggestions from Hendrik. # # The file consists of 6,355 lines of text; one for each of the # JIS X 0208-1997 kanji. Each line is a follows: # - the kanji itself, # - a space followed by a colon (:) followed by a space, # - one or more radicals/elements which can be seen in the kanji. These # are drawn from JIS X 0208-1997. Where the element alone is not in # JIS X 0208, a kanji which contains the element is used instead. # # The decomposition is based on what can be seen in typical kanji # glyphs. Elements themselves can be further subdivided. For example, # Àå is an element and so is ¸ý, so the elements in Ïà are <¸ý Àå ¸À>. # # Jim Breen, Tokyo, January 2001 # Melbourne, July 2001 # Melbourne, Dec 2004 #