Chinese Radicals

[Anth0ny]

Hey all,
I'm a little over a year of studies in Mandarin, and I've been seeing a lot of way that Chinese characters are categorized. I've seen the 214 radicals and all that but there is a lot more as far as semantic components to characters which a lot of the time can also be stand alone characters themselves.
I hope this make sense I really hoping to get help on locating a semantic/phonetic component list as well as just get a better understanding of how characters are categorized.

Thanks

 

[朱真明]

For categorization you can check out this thread " How can you SORT Chinese characters...single and multiple"

In regards to semantic components have you seen "Outlier's Dictionary"? There are other books written on this subject like "Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese", "Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary", "ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese" and so forth.

You can also check out "A LEXICON OF CLASSICAL CHINESE", "Thesaurus Linguae Sericae" and so forth.

 

[feng]

Hey all,
I'm a little over a year of studies in Mandarin, and I've been seeing a lot of way that Chinese characters are categorized. I've seen the 214 radicals and all that but there is a lot more as far as semantic components to characters which a lot of the time can also be stand alone characters themselves.
I hope this make sense I really hoping to get help on locating a semantic/phonetic component list as well as just get a better understanding of how characters are categorized.

Thanks

You just want a list for learning, or you want to know about their history and inter-relation?