Michael Norton (a.k.a. Flarn) asked: > What's an ideograph? Also, what's a radical? > Are they the same thing?
No, they aren't. In the Unicode context, the simplest answer is that an "ideograph" or a "CJK ideograph" is simply to be taken as a synonym for "a Chinese character". A "radical" is one of a list of traditional pieces of Chinese chracters that are used in indices for looking up Chinese characters in a dictionary. By the way, Google is your friend. If you want to get information about such things, googling for it is a good way to start. I suggest reading: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Chinese%20writing%20system --Ken
