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<p dir="auto">It helps much to understand the character's etymologies and to that end I'm using <a href="https://zhongwen.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">this online database</a>. Problem is, I like studying outdoors where no internet is available, hence the downloadable database I'm looking for.</p>
<p dir="auto">It doesn't have to include explanations in English, just how characters are decomposed and what variations are used (like heart is written in some characters like 忄as in 忻 instead of using the full radical 心)</p>
<p dir="auto">Or if somebody knows how to download the whole set of images of the webpage I linked maintaining it's structure...</p>
<p dir="auto">The database I linked is also available as a book (Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary, English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) but is so poorly printed characters are sometimes extremely difficult to read.</p>
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