CJK Radicals Supplement is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...

containing alternative, often positional, forms of the

Kangxi radical The ''Kangxi'' radicals (), also known as ''Zihui'' radicals, are a set of 214 Chinese character radicals, radicals that were collated in the 18th-century ''Kangxi Dictionary'' to aid categorization of Chinese characters. They are primarily sor ...

s. They are used as headers in dictionary indices and other CJK ideograph collections organized by radical-stroke.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Radicals Supplement block:

References

{{CJK ideographs in Unicode Unicode blocks