Given that the component tree suggestion received mixed responses, would it be possible to simply make the list editable, just like the other fields?

For instance, for 答 da2 (to reply, to answer), instead of the following:

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⺮ zhu2: bamboo
合 he2, ge3: to close; to join; to suit; be equal to; whole unit of dry measure for grain that is equal to one deciliter
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I would like to enter the following (which seems a lot more logical to me):

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⺮ zhu2: bamboo
亼 ji2: upside down mouth, a mouth talking to you
口 kou3: mouth
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Since different people would edit it differently (depending on their familiarity with radicals, and if they were studying Chinese or Japanese), it would have to be built so that one's own editing would be visible only to oneself (or, like the mnemonics, have a pick-list of others' constructions).

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The decompositions have a highly cached and complicated inheritance structure, so that would be pretty tough to pull off. If you want, you can throw it in your mnemonic field for now...

Nick, that is what I am doing right now, but it can get confusing at times. Most of the decompositions are just fine so you tend to look at the bottom first and only then you realize that it was a decomposition you had to fix up.