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this is true, though these cases are fairly limited and 𠂇 is not a radical (you would look it up as 丿+ 1) after looking through my dictionary, it appears that
by dastbe 9y ago
this is true, though these cases are fairly limited and 𠂇 is not a radical (you would look it up as 丿+ 1)
after looking through my dictionary, it appears that 右 was originally written with 又 which is a pictograph of a right hand (no idea if the split-top was an accepted variation of the radical or the original form) and was later standardized to use 𠂇 for both characters. Japanese picked them up before the standardization occurred and so missed out on the homogenization.
this also makes 友 a combination of the left and right hand, which imo is kind of cool.
- glandium 9y agoAccording to Japanese dictionaries, 友 comes from 又+又, which makes it a combination of two right hands.
- glandium 9y ago> Japanese picked them up before the standardization occurred and so missed out on the homogenization. Actually, the writing with 𠂇 is older than the japanese using the characters. The wikipedia page on stroke order suggests the homogenization in stroke order might have happened last century.