The radical part of a Chinese character is important forsearch it in a dictionary, what made radical teaching a mainly part duringChinese course for both Chinese children and students who have other mother tongue. People have named the radicals for teaching and dictionary, but according our survey, there are different names for a same radical in the primary Chinese course and some books wrote for Chinese teacher. This article brings forward several rules for name radicals and suggestsa radical name table based on <The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Component > and <Specification for Identifying Indexing Components of GB13000.1 Chinese Characters Set>. In our view, the radical name should mainly prompt clues of the conformation rules of the Chinese character, and also do favor of nice character writing, what means the character shape(structure) is more important than the meaning for a radical name.

汉字部首是汉字归类查检的重要信息元素，在教学和辞书应用中，形成了一些约定俗成的部首指称，但迄今并没有统一规范。本文以国家规范《汉字部首表》(GF0011-2009)和《GB13000.1 字符集汉字部首归部规范》(GF0012-2009)为基础，收集了部分关于部首表名称的资料，小范围征求了12名小学低年学段教师的意见，综合后分析提出确定现代汉字部首名称的若干规则。 我们认为，部首名称应以有利于学习者、使用者掌握汉字构形规则、提示书写规范为主要目的，因此部首名称要求的主要信息应与字形关系更为密切，是否旁及字义，取决于具体汉字的字形，并非部首定名的主要考虑因素。

• 王敏(教育部语言文字应用研究所)