Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi changed the compiling method of Chinese character books from Zhou Dynasty to Qin Dynasty, and compiled the collected words into four-character and seven-character rhymes, creating a radical arrangement method, which was divided into 540 parts.
Radical arrangement is a method that Chinese dictionaries and dictionaries use the identity of radicals of Chinese characters to arrange entries according to the font characteristics of Chinese characters. Words with the same radicals are combined to form a component, and that radical is listed at the beginning as a radical, so it is called radical arrangement. This method was first invented by Xu Shen. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, he ranked more than 9,000 words in 540? Under a single word, these 540 words are called radicals.
Radicals and the words under their jurisdiction are not only related in shape, but also in meaning. All belong to one person? That's what it means. However, there are too many radicals in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, and the arrangement between radicals and their subordinate words in a radical is not clear. Mei Yingzuo compiled Vocabulary in Ming Dynasty. These two shortcomings have been greatly improved. First, the radical radicals are simplified from 540 to 2 14, and all the words that can be merged into one are merged; Secondly, it is stipulated that all radicals and words belonging to a radical are arranged according to the number of strokes, so that the arrangement is more perfect and clear. After the adoption of Kangxi Dictionary, this dictionary method was completely stereotyped and became the most important arrangement method of common Chinese characters and dictionaries in China in recent years.
China Carpenter, Old Ci Yuan and Old Ci Hai all use this method. ? The biggest advantage of radical arrangement method is that it uses font standard, which makes it possible to look up words according to shape; And the same radical word has a certain relationship in meaning, such as? Huh? Most of them are bird names. Turtle? Most of them are fish names. Hiro? Most of them are related to diseases. Hands? Many parts are related to hand movements. , to a certain extent, has the advantages of classification and arrangement. Generally speaking, most Chinese characters are easy to search, so they are easily accepted by ordinary people and last for a long time.