FOURCORNER CHINESE CHARACTER A POWERFULL BUT EASY CHINESE SEARCH METHOD
FourCorner Chinese Character search method : Tutorial by Ating Yahja, author of software App kanjikita.apk, ChangloRoll, SijiaoHSK1 to SijiaoHSK6, GB2312Browser, ChindoDoor, and HandeDoor - Chinese Characters Learning Tools and Dictionary
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Many times we meet a Chinese Character we do not know, we are stuck.
We will try to find at a Chinese dictionary by counting how many strokes
consists in the character (Number of Strokes Method) - we end up with a list of too many characters,
sometime even after that we can not what we want because we count more or less one stroke.
We try to find at a Chinese dictionary by figuring out the stem (bushou/radix/radical - Radical Method) of the characters.
But many times our guess of stem is not correct and many times we are confused and
can not guess any of stem needed.
Actually for common characters that we have known how to spell it, we can find it by its sound (Pinyin sound - Pinyin Method).
But many times we do not know the sound of the characters we try find. If we do not know the sound, how can we find its dictionary
entry?
To overcome this, Wubi Method (Five Stroke-Types Method/Five Strokes Method) gives way to type a Chinese Character by its components.
And do not need to know how to spell its sound, but only need to know how to write it by using its components.
So, a Character will be composed by this method by its writing parts.
For example : 乱 will consists 丿, 古，and 乙. This Wubi Method is a candidate for solving
the problem but learning this method takes many time. Its learning curve is quite steep. And it requires intermediate knowledge of chinese language.
So this time, we want only to find a more easy method: the FourCorner method.
So, here comes FourCorner Numbering (SiJiao HaoMa) Method. With this method, a Character can be found by its appearance at
its four corner - top left corner, top right corner, bottom left corner, and botton right corner. So we will got four numbers and the four numbers
is the FourCorner number or code.
For example, 班 has FourCorner numbers:
1.) at top left we see '-' (dash/horizontal line) that is number 1,
2.) at top right we also see '-' (dash/horizontal line) that is number 1,
3.) at bottom left we see '-' (dash/horizontal line) that is number 1,
4.) at bottom right we see '-' (dash/horizontal line) that is number 1,
so we got the number '1111'.
If want to more precise we can find the first (extension) number of FourCorner:
5) the nearest-upper from bottom right we find the nearer corner: we find something like '+' that is number 4,
so 班 has FourCorner numbers and its extension: '1111.4' (dot here is separator to extension number).
We have pass through introduction, now we are ready to crunch/break Characters into its FourCorner numbers.
FourCorner method encode different corner as different number.
Number '0' : dot on horizon/dash got number '0', for example : 文 have top-left number of '0' because we can see 'dot on horizon' shape at this corner.
Special: 〇 (the number zero) got number 0000, equal to: 零(the number zero - complex strokes)
Number '1' : a horizon/dash got number '1', for example : 豆 have top-left number of '1' because we can see 'a horizon/horizontal line/dash' shape at this corner.
Number '2' :
* a vertical stroke or '!' like shape got number '2', for example : 凵 have top-left number of '2' because we can see 'a vertical stroke/vertical line/! like' shape at this corner.
* a near vertical stroke or '/' like shape got also the number '2', for example : 信have top-left number of '2' because we can see 'a near vertical stroke or '/' -like shape at this corner.
* at bottom left this 信 has '!'-like shape so its corner number is also '2'
Number '3' : independent chinese-dot (丶) or comma (,)-like or apostrophe ( ` )-like
* an independent chinese-dot or comma-like got the number '3'
* for example : 心 has '3' for its top left corner and also '3' for its top right corner.
* for example: 户 has '3' for its top left corner
* for example: 宝 has '3' for its top left corner
Number '4' : cross-like: '+' or 'X'
* for example : 木 has '+' at top-left corner so we got number '4'
* for example: 杀 has 'X' at top-left corner so we got number '4'
* for example: 存 has '+' at top-left with a little bit slant, but it's ok, so we got number '4'
Number '5': a vertical or near-vertical with two or more line-stroke crossing it
* for example : 丰 has top-left corner number 5.
* for example : 中,史,申 has top-left corner number 5.
* for example : 扌has top-left corner number 5.
Number '6' : a closed square or closed box like
* for example : 兄 has top-left corner number 6.
* for example : 冒,只, 吕 has top-left corner number 6.
Number '7' : an angle with shape like '7' or 'L' or Γ (=greek capital gamma), upright or rotated
* for example : 冂, 乒,仄, 尸, 导 has top-left number of '7'
* but 店 is 00xx not 7xxx
Number '8' : shape like '/ \' = pair of slash-and-backslash, like '/-' pair of connected slash-and-dash,'V'-like, ^-like, or ' '
* simple example : 人, 入, 八 has top-left number of '8'
* another example : 舍, 谷, 酋 ( V-like) has top-left number of '8'
* another example : 气 has top-left like connected '/-' so we have number of '8'
Number '9' : shape like '/ ! \' = trio of slash-vertical-backslash, three chinese dots or trio-commas , , , OR trio dot-vertical-dot.
* simple example : 小 , 忄 = 9000
* another example : 兴,半,忙 has top-left number of '9'
* but four dots like 点 become xx33 (bottom-left and bottom-right taken both one-dot = both 3)
Now we know how to encode corner into number/code. We give example for Character with top-left number 0 to 9 with 2nd 3rd and 4th corner = 0:
0000 亠 (Radical9) = dot over horizon
1000 一 (the number one)
2000丨, 丿
3000 丶
4000 义,十 (you can see cross with one crossing)
5000 丰(you can see cross with 3 crossing), 事, 史, there 14 character from GB2312 array.
6000 口,囗, 旷(little square is a mouth, greater square is a big boundary garden-square or territory-square)
7000 no Characters.
8000 人, 入, 八
9000 小, 忄
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