Chinese character components

traditional component of Chinese ideographs, used for indexing them in dictionaries

system of 214 radicals used for indexing traditional Hanzi characters in the Kangxi Dictionary, published in 1716

conventional order in which CJKV characters should be written

thumb|upright=0.7|right|Jiong (囧) in Regular script|Kaishu, Clerical, Seal, and Oracle bone scripts (top to bottom)

Pianpangs () are components in Chinese character internal structures. A compound character is normally divided into two pianpangs according to their relationship in sounds and meanings. Originally, the left side component of the character was called pian, and the right side pang. Nowadays, it is customary to refer to the left and right, upper and lower, outer and inner parts of compound characters as pianpangs.

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