Radical 100
Chinese character radical
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Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.[1]
| 生 | |
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Radical 100 (U+2F63)
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| 生 (U+751F) "life" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | shēng |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄥ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | sheng |
| Wade–Giles: | shêng1 |
| Cantonese Yale: | sāang |
| Jyutping: | saang1 |
| Japanese Kana: | セイ sei / ショウ shō (on'yomi) い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 생 saeng |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | いきる ikiru うまれる umareru せい sei しょう shō |
| Hangul: | 날 nal |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
生 is also the 109th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[2] It is a first grade kanji.[2]
The character alone is present in the phrase worship of the living.
