Like say 持つ vs 待つ the hand & slow walk radicals change while the 寺 stays the same
講 vs 構 the talk & tree radicals change while 井-on-top-of-再 remains the same
I’m thinking mostly へんs but any radical would be, you know, radical. ^((dude))
It’s been years since I’ve been doing this (as in, I don’t know where to start to dig up my Nelson’s from that former life)
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I’m confused what you’re asking. What radicals changed. And you absolutely cannot infer meaning directly and exclusively from components.
The exact genesis of why a particular character was invented is lost to time. The most we have is history of shapes changing like 肉 turning into 月 on many characters thus explaining all the body parts characters with moons in them like 肌, also referred to as the meat-moon にくづき radical.
亻(にんべん) to do with people
扌(てへん) to do with hands
氵(さんずい) to do with water
土 (つちへん) to do with ground
艹 (くさかんむり) to do with grass
Was this the sort of thing you were looking for? 🤔
I mean this is a super common phenomenon, you could list 100s of examples, for example for 寺・冓・是・軍, these are all in use in Japanese in some form or another:
– 侍峙待恃持時特畤痔等詩
– 媾搆構溝篝覯講購
– 匙堤寔提醍鞮題
– 揮暈暉渾煇琿皸皹葷褌諢輝運
You’re going to have to be more specific with what exactly you want
Also obligatory: The radical is only one component of a character and each character has exactly one radical, no more no less
If you’re looking for a list of approximate meanings for radicals and components I have been compiling a list. First two tabs of
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1sXALivEaR6-Liab–6yGclyNMEBGHKdV4FCDKYMh_JU/htmlview#
Tho again obligatory comment that you cannot infer the meaning of a character from its components
The absolute simplest that comes to mind is
大 and 犬
Running a close second
井 and 丼