Alternate forms of components

There are some components (at least in traditional) that have multiple alternate forms. Like for instance 人, which for instance has the form ‘人’ marked as ‘person’, or the form ‘亻’ marked as ‘slenderman’.

These originally mean the same thing. After learning the ‘slenderman’ was the same thing as ‘person’, some characters started to make a lot more sense. However, for this component, and quite a few others, it is not clear that they are the same, but just written in a different form.

It might be nice to add to the description what other forms it might have, or at least refer back to the ‘basic’ form of it, so that you can tell with learning what it actually means.

Other examples for instance are ‘火’ and ‘灬’, or ‘手’ and ‘扌’.

It might then also be useful to add the original (more vague) definitions of the radicals. Because in the end, these make the meaning of the character.

Good point! I suppose the question is whether it’d add confusion, as some of the HanziHero components don’t have a radical equivalent. But I can also see it being a purely informational addition for those that do have an equivalent…

This information can probably go under the “HINT” section like in branch e.g., “This is a form of Radical 9”, or I suppose it could be a little icon/outlink to the radical with its number :thinking:

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