[Jon Babcock (Re: CJK combining components (was RE: "Giga ...)) writes:]

>> >>>>> Jim Breen <jwb@...> writes:
>> > As I mentioned before, my main interest in the decomposition technique
>> > is as an aid for dictionary searching. If someone were to come up with a
>> > useful system, I'd like to be able to use it to extend my coverage
>> > beyond the 6,355 kanji in JIS X 0208.
>>
>> It would seem that any new system would not help in using the existing
>> dictionaries. Or, do you mean to extend the coverage of the dictionaries you
>> are making and provide an alternate system of organizing the kanji?

Well, au contraire, it can lead directly into several dictionaries. For example, my
dictionary files of the "JIS" kanji (6,355 + 5,801) have the indices for about half
a dozen dictionaries and instructional books, including the Daikanwajiten. Thus with
appropriate software you can use the fragments to identify an obscure kanji, and
have immediate pointers to it the dictionaries.

Jim

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