<p>Check out this page <a href="https://www.zdic.net/zd/bs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">漢典 字典部首索引</a>.</p>
<p>Unlike what you requested, it doesn't give you a list of radicals with their meaning. It, however, gives you a list of all radicals with a link to all characters under each radical. The first character typically is the radical itself. You click the radical to get the meaning of that radical. This is a two-step process, not as convenient as the one-step process you requested.</p>
<p>If you want a list of radicals with their meaning, you'll have to compile it yourself.</p>

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<p>I want to learn more about the meaning of the radicals of simplified chinese characters, because I feel that by knowing what each radical means, I can have a better understanding of the meaning of the characters.</p>
<p>So, I want to find a list of radicals of Chinese characters along with their meanings. Through using a search engine, I was able to find some guides on this topic on the Internet. For example:</p>
<p><a href="http://xh.5156edu.com/page/z2443m7618j19616.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://xh.5156edu.com/page/z2443m7618j19616.html</a> (for convenience, see screenshot of the website below)</p>
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<p><a href="https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/338926715" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/338926715</a> (for convenience, see screenshot of the website below)</p>
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<p>However, I would rather read this information from a reliable source since that would be more reliable than reading an article published by someone on the Internet. Preferably, the information should be published by a public institution from China that is in charge of the regulation of Chinese characters (e.g. <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1042167" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ministry of Education</a>, <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10926073" rel="nofollow noreferrer">National Language Commission</a>, I might be missing some). If this information is mentioned in a serious book, I would also be willing to read it.</p>
<p>I found a document called &quot;The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Component&quot; published by the &quot;Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China&quot; <a href="http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_sjzl/ziliao/A19/201001/t20100115_75694.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">(link)</a> that lists the radical but the list doesn't mention the meaning of each component.</p>

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I think you are having a naive, oversimplistic idea of our characters, like they are indexed by radicals and each radical forms a semantic field. No, the truth is far more complicated. That said, for a small number of radicals, the characters under that radical do have somewhat related meanings, and 王力古汉语字典 has a 部首总论 when this is the case. Again this is only for a very small number of radicals.
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Remember, radicals are HUGELY different from components. Dictionary radicals are used for indexing characters in a dictionary. Components are more for referring to actual parts of a character. You shouldn't memorize all the dictionary radicals as this will hinder you from knowing the true role of each component in a character and this will lead up to some mistakes.
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If I were to decompose let's say 法 (which is composed of 氵 (water, meaning component) and 去 (qù [not obvious sound connection in modern Chinese], sound component), I would end up making the wrong explaination saying "it is composed of the radicals 氵 (water), 土 (earth) and 厶 (private)". This will not help as you are hiding away the true meanings of the components and this will make it more harder to memorize.
prismcool
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@prismcool But, what do you mean by “true meaning of the component”?
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List of components with their meanings published by a reliable source
# List of components with their meanings published by a reliable source

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-12-05)

I want to learn more about the meaning of the radicals of simplified chinese characters, because I feel that by knowing what each radical means, I can have a better understanding of the meaning of the characters.

So, I want to find a list of radicals of Chinese characters along with their meanings. Through using a search engine, I was able to find some guides on this topic on the Internet. For example:

<http://xh.5156edu.com/page/z2443m7618j19616.html> (for convenience, see screenshot of the website below)

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/B8jrY.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/B8jrY.png)

<https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/338926715> (for convenience, see screenshot of the website below)

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/OiHmv.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/OiHmv.png)

However, I would rather read this information from a reliable source since that would be more reliable than reading an article published by someone on the Internet. Preferably, the information should be published by a public institution from China that is in charge of the regulation of Chinese characters (e.g. [Ministry of Education](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1042167), [National Language Commission](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10926073), I might be missing some). If this information is mentioned in a serious book, I would also be willing to read it.

I found a document called "The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Component" published by the "Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China" [(link)](http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_sjzl/ziliao/A19/201001/t20100115_75694.html) that lists the radical but the list doesn't mention the meaning of each component.

**Tags:** simplified-characters, radicals, character-components

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I think you are having a naive, oversimplistic idea of our characters, like they are indexed by radicals and each radical forms a semantic field. No, the truth is far more complicated. That said, for a small number of radicals, the characters under that radical do have somewhat related meanings, and 王力古汉语字典 has a 部首总论 when this is the case. Again this is only for a very small number of radicals.  
> **username_2**: Remember, radicals are HUGELY different from components. Dictionary radicals are used for indexing characters in a dictionary. Components are more for referring to actual parts of a character. You shouldn't memorize all the dictionary radicals as this will hinder you from knowing the true role of each component in a character and this will lead up to some mistakes.  
> **username_2**: If I were to decompose let's say 法 (which is composed of 氵 (water, meaning component) and 去 (qù [not obvious sound connection in modern Chinese], sound component), I would end up making the wrong explaination saying "it is composed of the radicals 氵 (water), 土 (earth) and 厶 (private)". This will not help as you are hiding away the true meanings of the components and this will make it more harder to memorize.  
> **username_3**: @username_2 But, what do you mean by “true meaning of the component”?  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2023-12-06. Score: 0

Check out this page [漢典 字典部首索引](https://www.zdic.net/zd/bs/).

Unlike what you requested, it doesn't give you a list of radicals with their meaning. It, however, gives you a list of all radicals with a link to all characters under each radical. The first character typically is the radical itself. You click the radical to get the meaning of that radical. This is a two-step process, not as convenient as the one-step process you requested.

If you want a list of radicals with their meaning, you'll have to compile it yourself.


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