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Chinese Radicals
While the term radical is nowadays most commonly used to refer to the section headers of a Chinese dictionary (部首 bùshǒu), also known as index keys or classifiers, under which characters are indexed in dictionaries from Shuōwén Jiézì down to modern ones, the term radical has been strenuously objected to by some, due to widespread confusion over the implications of its coinage as well as misunderstandings stemming from contradictions between its various historical uses, which for disambiguation purposes are listed as follows…

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