How can you input and display a radical in a computer text document?


(I apologize if this question is off-topic on Japanese.SE or is more suitable
for SuperUser).

I like to write computer notes about what I learn in Japanese. From time to
time, I would like to be able to include in my text a given radical, say
kokoro **心** , which takes several graphic forms when used as an element in a
more complex kanji, for instance .

I did not succeed on my system (Mac OS X 10.7) to find the glyphs for these
variants exactly as I would like them (I would also be interested about how to
do this on Windows 7 or Linux).

I first tried the name of the kanji from which the radical is derived. Then I
tried to use the japanese name for them, such as risshinben (as in 快) and
shitagokoro (as in 志), hoping that the hiragana or katakana input would
recognize them and propose me their representation, but it did not work.

So I looked into the Full Japanese Character Table, under the "by radical"
tab, and found at least a version of each of them : 忄 (CJK 5FC4) and 㣺 (CJK
38FA) with the correct kun readings. I have them now as favorites but do I
need to do that for all radicals? Do I need to register all of them in a user
dictionary? I would imagine that I am not the only one who wants to do use
them.

Besides, the versions I have found are not suited for all occasions: they are
centered on a standard kanji square. If I want them to appear near to a
placeholder, or demonstrate their proportion to the rest of a typical kanji, I
have to make complicated adjustments, depending on my use and the kind of
radical.




Someone collected those with unicode points.

> <http://shimapucchi.blog93.fc2.com/blog-entry-321.html>  
>  <http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/kondo_hiro/proverb/busyu/busyu.htm>  
>  <http://www.efontshop.com/feaddfont/help/busyu_list.htm>  
>  <http://www.kanjijiten.net/radical/index.html> (page is in shift-jis
> encoding)  
>  <http://www.kanjikentei.jp/list/bushubetsu/>

or some at wikipedia

>
> [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/部首](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%A8%E9%A6%96)




Someone collected those with unicode points.

> <http://shimapucchi.blog93.fc2.com/blog-entry-321.html>  
>  <http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/kondo_hiro/proverb/busyu/busyu.htm>  
>  <http://www.efontshop.com/feaddfont/help/busyu_list.htm>  
>  <http://www.kanjijiten.net/radical/index.html> (page is in shift-jis
> encoding)  
>  <http://www.kanjikentei.jp/list/bushubetsu/>

or some at wikipedia

>
> [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/部首](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%A8%E9%A6%96)

