Radical (Chinese characters)

A Chinese radical (Chinese: 部首; pinyin: bùshǒu; literally: "section header") is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary. This component is often a semantic indicator (that is, an indicator of the meaning of the character), though in some cases the original semantic connection has become obscure, owing to changes in character meaning over time. In other cases, the radical may be a phonetic component or even an artificially extracted portion of the character.

The English term "radical" is based on an analogy between the structure of characters and inflection of words in European languages. Radicals are also sometimes called "classifiers", but this name is more commonly applied to grammatical classifiers (measure words).

History

In the earliest Chinese dictionaries, such as the Erya (3rd century BC), characters were grouped together in broad semantic categories. Because the vast majority of characters are phono-semantic compounds, combining a semantic component with a phonetic component, each semantic component tended to recur within a particular section of the dictionary. In the 2nd century AD, the Han dynasty scholar Xu Shen organized his etymological dictionary Shuowen Jiezi by selecting 540 recurring graphic elements he called bù (部 , "categories"). Most were common semantic components, but they also included shared graphic elements such as a dot or horizontal stroke. Some were even artificially extracted groups of strokes, termed "glyphs" by Serruys (1984, p. 657), which never had an independent existence other than being listed in Shuowen. Each character was listed under only one element, which is then referred to as the radical for that character. For example, characters containing 女 nǚ "female" or 木 mù "tree, wood" are often grouped together in the sections for those radicals.

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by: Mammuth

I'm gonna give you some anger
Coming straight form my heart
I've had enough now
I don't even know where to start
To tell you why my heart do cry
When I see all the damage caused by my brothers in faith
You make up rules you build up walls
You think you're building the kingdom of God
Instead you're ruining it
You're so radical and proud of it
It makes me sick
Chorus:
Radical
(Now take a look at what you do)
You're so radical
(You think that Christ is pleased with you?)
Radical, but you're holding back your friends from his love
(It's God damned)
Radical
(I'll never fit in to your system)
You're so radical
(You must accept that I'm a Christian)
Radical
(I recall the words of Paul: "You're not the Judge")
You're not the judge
But still you act like you are
You say believe in my way or don't believe at all
Can't you see you're holding back your friends
From seeing who Christ really is
He said: Come as you are, my love will cover it all
This is the deal I'm not like you
But still my focus is high
So step back Satan, I see through your disguise
And I wont listen to you when you say my faith isn't enough
Chorus
Galatians 1:6-8

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