1. A radical labeling system comprising: an input that receives an East Asian character; a processor that identifies a suspected radical in said East Asian character and searches a list of radicals for said suspected radical and determines whether the suspected radical is present in the list of radicals, wherein said suspected radical is a subset of strokes within said East Asian character; and a storage database that, upon the determination that the suspected radical is present in the list of radicals, stores, with said character, an association between an identity of said suspected radical and a position in said character of said suspected radical in relation to other radicals, wherein said position in said character of said suspected radical is based on a spatial layout of Unicode that uses a Unicode value to identify the position of the suspected radical in relation to other radicals within the character, and wherein said spatial layout includes left-and-right layout information, above-and-below layout information and bracketing information.