Adrian van Amstel’s Chinese Character Dictionary (CCD) represents a very different approach to organizing Chinese characters in a non-electronic paper-based dictionary. Describing himself in the Preface to his dictionary as a “visual learner”, Van Amstel adopts a visual strategy whereby similar looking characters are grouped together. Rather than organizing characters according to their Pinyin or stroke count, Van Amstel’s CCD adopts a look-up method based on the premise that when radicals are stripped away what remains is “the main and most prominent part of the character” (Preface), or what Van Amstel refers to as the “phonetic” part. Three hundred ninety-five phonetic parts have been designated as “series headers”, each heading a “character table”. These 395 character tables accommodate around 7,450 traditional and 1,450 simplified characters. The 395 character tables and their corresponding series headers are further categorized into 17 main components – the Main Components Table (MCT) – based on their shape, ten of which are identified as having slanting strokes, and the remaining seven with mostly horizontal and

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汉字词典：排列、解释和查找汉字的新方法 Adrian van Amstel

Adrian van Amstel 的汉字词典 (CCD) 代表了一种非常不同的在非电子纸质词典中组织汉字的方法。范阿姆斯特尔在他的字典的序言中将自己描述为“视觉学习者”，他采用了一种视觉策略，将相似的字符组合在一起。Van Amstel 的 CCD 不是根据拼音或笔画来组织字符，而是采用了一种基于以下前提的查找方法：当部首被剥离时，剩下的是“字符的主要和最突出的部分”（前言），或Van Amstel 所说的“语音”部分。三百九十五个拼音部分被指定为“系列标题”，每个标题都是一个“字符表”。这 395 个字符表可容纳大约 7,450 个繁体和 1,450 个简体字符。