Guest guest Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 All you Chinese language pros, Being a neophyte to the Chinese written language I am finding a small problem. I am doing some writing for the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and was looking over the Chen and Chen mm. I looked for the characters in the index of the Zhong Yao Ci Dian only to find no such entry. So I went to the trusty Wenlin software and stroked the character as it appears in Chen and Chen. The first entry, chai but not the character listed in Chen. the bottom part of the character is not wood but instead looks something like xiao3 (small) with a heng2 stroke through it. Is this just a variant that Wenlin doesn't recognize or is this a misprint? Thanks, Professor of Honolulu, HI 808-349-8219 www.herbsandmore.photostockplus.com Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 Your talking about chai hu chai? It would be strange for it to have anything but a wood radical in the bottom seeing as its meaning is completely wood related (tinder/firewood). Zi, purple, has the same top with the silk radical on the bottom ç´« the lower part looks like xiao. Otherwise it may be a variant font. My copy of chen and chen is at the office, but sometimes font makers for Chinese seem to take some liberties with ligatures. Xiao should have a hooked tail where mu will not. If you look at Bensky (latest) they use the form that you're talking about as well, with no tail on the downstroke, and then inexplicably switch to a connected " mu " in one of the nomenclature headings. I think this is a typographical variation, and there certainly isn't a semantic problem here. With wenlin it is generally easier to track down variants by going into the character definition that you can find and clicking on the radicals that stay consistant, under each of these there's a " list characters containing X as a component " . Wenlin's not super-duper comprehensive, but the times that I've cought it out are very few and far between. The draw in function doesn't work very well and should not be relied on to look things up. Par Scott - " " Saturday, October 08, 2005 2:13 AM Characters in Chen and Chen > All you Chinese language pros, > > Being a neophyte to the Chinese written language I am finding a small > problem. I am doing some writing for the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and > was looking over the Chen and Chen mm. I looked for the characters in the > index of the Zhong Yao Ci Dian only to find no such entry. So I went to > the trusty Wenlin software and stroked the character as it appears in Chen > and Chen. The first entry, chai but not the character listed in Chen. the > bottom part of the character is not wood but instead looks something like > xiao3 (small) with a heng2 stroke through it. > > Is this just a variant that Wenlin doesn't recognize or is this a > misprint? > > Thanks, > > > > > > Professor of > Honolulu, HI > 808-349-8219 > > www.herbsandmore.photostockplus.com > > > Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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