Chinese dictionaries have organized their thousands of characters with the radical system for the last few hundred years. In this visualization we lay out all 214 standard radicals. Clicking on one will rapidly overlay all the characters with that radical.
This visualization is showing characters from about 20,000 of the most commonly used CJK characters
###The data The data is powered by the Unicode Unihan database. It was much easier to work with thanks to the Chinese Character Web API
An excellent example of looking up Chinese characters by their radical: http://hanzi.hemiola.com/
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Simplified characters by radical
forked from enjalot‘s block: 中文: simplified characters