A radical was found in the radical directory of the radical dictionary. The page number of a word is a direct representation of the word. Find the radical of the searched word. This radical has this radical in many words. And the word represents this word, a single and unique word, which contains no other words.
Radical indexing is to sort the words of the same radical, which is the most commonly used arrangement method in word dictionaries. Most word dictionaries are arranged in this way, and the radical page number is an important part of the radical indexing catalogue.
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Radical indexing is one of the indexing methods of Chinese dictionaries and dictionaries. At present, there are three main ways to arrange Chinese characters in Chinese dictionaries, namely radical method, phonetic order method and numbering method. Among them, the radical method was first adopted by people.
Radicals are also radicals, which are special radicals used as the basis for arranging and searching Chinese characters. The scope of radicals is smaller than that of radicals, which means that radicals must be radicals and have the function of font classification, but radicals are not necessarily radicals.
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