![]() ![]() Note that Wenlin lists are based on a Qīng Dynasty commentary on Shuōwén, 說文解字 This is much faster than looking up the character in Shuōwén, especially when you are not sure which component is the radical (部首). This will give you a list of 540 seal radicals, and clicking on any of them will give you all the seal characters listed under this radical. The radical numbers are equivalent to Shuōwén section numbers (this is where the name 部首 “section headers” comes from). Use an online list of seal radicals to find out the number of the radical, and find the character in the corresponding section of Shuōwén Jiězì. Note that most modern editions of Shuōwén have seal script headwords, but their indices use modern characters. ![]() Use a paper edition of 說文解字 Shuōwén Jiězì that contains a seal radical index. Let us start with the slowest, traditional method and see how it can be made faster using electronic dictionaries: Identification of the radical needs to be done by trial and error, as there are no fixed rules that an be applied when you don't know the character in the first place. In any case, the lookup needs to consist of identifying which component of the seal character is the radical and finding the character in the corresponding section. Looking up seal characters is not as hopeless as other answers seem to indicate, even though it is considerably harder than looking up modern characters. ![]()
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