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Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components
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<p> <i>The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components</i> (<a href="/facts/Simplified_Chinese_characters/UcAD6xXs">simplified Chinese</a>: 汉字部首表; <a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">traditional Chinese</a>: 漢字部首表; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: <i>hànzì bùshǒu biǎo</i>; lit. 'Chinese character radicals table') is a <a href="/facts/Lexicography/3btFWjIx">lexicographic</a> tool used to order the <a href="/facts/Chinese_characters/5pn1PFvj">Chinese characters</a> in <a href="/facts/Mainland_China/HFXJcUky">mainland China</a>. The specification is also known as GF 0011-2009. </p><p>In China's normative documents, "radical" is defined as any component or 偏旁 <i>piānpáng</i> of Chinese characters, while 部首 is translated as "indexing component". </p>