[tlug] radicals and graphemes

[David Stibbe <dstibbe@example.com>]

Someone mentioned searching kanji's by graphemes a while ago in this 
mailinglist. He also supplied this link: http://www.bibiko.de/kanji/.

However, on this link I see no difference between graphemes and 
radicals. As a matter of fact, according to the wikipedia definition of 
graphemes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme):

`In typography, a grapheme is the atomic unit in written language. 
Graphemes include letters, Chinese ideograms, numerals, punctuation 
marks, and other glyphs.'

a radical IS a (typographic) grapheme!

Am I misunderstanding something here ?


David