Q: Which one should prevail in the exam, the "prescribed radical" and the "traditional habit radical"?

Men's rules, the radical shall prevail.

Represents words found through traditional radicals.

Some words in the dictionary still adopt the method of "multi-opening", which are placed under the prescribed radical and the traditional radical respectively, and the word "four" is added to the upper right corner of the latter. For example, the word "four" exists in both Tian and Xin, and the word "four" is placed in the upper right corner of Xin.

The retrieval rules of Chinese characters and dictionary radicals are as follows:

1.Monogram: Check yourself, not the partiality.

2. Pictophonetic characters: look up shapes (ideograms).

3. Special words: check the book one, check the book two, check the soil, check the wizard, check the child, and check the big one.

Extended data:

At present, there are three main ways to arrange Chinese characters in Chinese dictionaries, namely radical method, phonetic order method and numbering method. Among them, the radical method was first adopted by people. This is the most commonly used arrangement of Chinese word dictionaries, and most Chinese word dictionaries are arranged in this way, such as Shuowen Jiezi, Kangxi Dictionary, Zhonghua Dictionary and Old Ci Yuan.