Add `===shuowen-jiguge-A30' characters.
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1 CHISE character database format (S-expression version)
2
3 * Relations between Characters
4
5 Feature-name `->foo' or `<-foo' mean relations between characters.
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7 If there are a relationship `foo', feature-name `->foo' means a value
8 of the feature is a `foo' of the defined character.  Likewise,
9 feature-name `<-foo' means the defined character is a `foo' of each
10 value of the feature.
11
12 Example 1: If a character ?A has feature `(->lowercase . (?a))', the
13 character ?a specified in the feature is a lowercase of the defined
14 character ?A.
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16 Example 2: If a character ?a has feature `(<-lowercase . (?A))', the
17 defined character ?a is a lowercase of the character ?A specified in
18 the feature.
19
20
21 ** Character Reference
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23 Type of feature `->foo' or `<-foo' are list of ``char-ref''.  The
24 type char-ref is defined by following definition:
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26    char-ref = character | char-spec | char-spec
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28 The type ``char-spec'' is a list of features.  In the list of
29 features, some keys are defined in the specification.  Following list
30 describes meaning of keys:
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32   :char
33         Required.  It indicates a character.
34         [type] character | char-spec
35
36   :sources
37         Optional.  It indicates a source of the relation.
38         [type] list of symbols
39
40         Meaning of some symbols are defined.  Following list describes
41         meaning of symbols:
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43                 zhonghua-dazidian (chuuka-daijiten)     中華大字典
44                 tongwen-tongkao (doubun-tsuukou)        同文通考
45                 yupian (gyokuhen)                       玉篇
46                 pianhai (henkai)                        篇海
47                 pianhai-leibian (henkai-ruihen)         篇海類編
48                 yunhai (inkai)                          韻会
49                 yunhai-bei (inkaiho)                    韻会補
50                 zihui (jii)                             字彙
51                 zihui-biansi                            字彙-辨似
52                 zihui-biansi-2char                      字彙-辨似-二字相似
53                 zihui-bu (zihui-bei, jiiho)             字彙補
54                 cihai (jikai)                           辞海
55                 jiyun (shuuin)                          集韻
56                 wuyinjiyun (goon-shuuin)                五音集韻
57                 wuyin-pianhai (goon-henkai)             五音篇海
58                 haipian (kaihen)                        海篇
59                 kangxi                                  康煕字典
60                 kangxi-biansi-2char                     康煕字典-辨似-二字相似
61                 kangxi-biansi-3char                     康煕字典-辨似-三字相似
62                 guangyun (kouin)                        広韻
63                 daikanwa (morohashi-daikanwa)           大漢和辞典
64                 (goonruiju)                             五音類聚
65                 ruijumyougishou (ruishuu-meigishou)     類聚名義抄
66                 zhengyun (seiin)                        正韻
67                 zhengzitong (zhengzi-tong, seiji-tsuu)  正字通
68                 shuowen-tongxun-dingsheng
69                         (setsumon-tsuukun-teisei)       説文通訓定聲
70                 shuowen                                 説文
71                 shuowen-zhu (danchuu)                   説文解字注(段註)
72                 shuowen-changjian                       説文長箋
73                 songyuan-yilai-suzipu
74                         (sougen-irai-zokujifu)          宋元以来俗字譜
75                 yuquan                                  玉泉
76                 chuanpian (senhen)                      川篇
77                 hanshu (kanjo)                          漢書
78                 lunheng (ronkou)                        論衡
79                 hougen
80                 (jigakushinan)                          字学指南
81                 zengyun (zouin)                         增韻
82                 yunxuejicheng (ingakushuusei)           韻學集成
83                 longkanshoujian                         龍龕手鑑
84
85
86 ** Features
87
88 ->lowercase     indicates lowercase
89 ->uppercase     indicates uppercase
90 ->titlecase     indicates titlecase (uppercase + lowercase)
91
92 ->fullwidth     indicates ``fullwidth'' characters
93 <-fullwidth     a ``fullwidth'' character of
94
95 ->same                  indicates same characters (同字)
96 ->original              indicates ``original'' characters (本字)
97 <-original              an ``original'' character of
98 ->ancient               indicates ``ancient'' characters (古字)
99 <-ancient               an ``ancient'' character of
100 ->vulgar                indicates ``vulgar'' characters (俗字)
101 <-vulgar                a ``vulgar'' character of
102 ->wrong                 indicates ``wrong'' characters (譌字)
103 <-wrong                 a ``wrong'' character of
104 ->simplified            indicates simplified characters
105 <-simplified            a simplified character of
106 ->ideographic-variants  indicates variants (異体字)
107 ->synonyms              indicates synonyms
108
109 ->radical               indicates corresponding radical forms
110 <-radical               a radical form of
111
112 ->bopomofo              indicates bopomofo characters
113 <-bopomofo              a bopomofo character of
114
115 ->ideographic           indicates corresponding characters used with
116                         Ideographic script
117 <-ideographic           an Ideographic symbol of