Apropos to indexing hanzi by shape...

[Tom Emerson]

http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~otfried/Skipcode/index.html

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Tom Emerson                                          Basis Technology Corp.
Sr. Sinostringologist                              http://www.basistech.com
  "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"