Radical 121
Chinese character radical
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Radical 121 or radical jar (缶部) meaning "jar" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 缶 | |
|---|---|
Radical 121 (U+2F78)
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| 缶 (U+7F36) "jar" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | fǒu |
| Bopomofo: | ㄈㄡˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | fou3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | fau2 |
| Jyutping: | fau2 |
| Japanese Kana: | フ fu / フウ fū (on'yomi) ほとぎ hotogi (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 부 bu |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 缶 ほとぎ (Left) 缶偏/ほとぎへん hotogihen 缶/かん kan |
| Hangul: | 장군 janggun |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 77 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
缶 is also the 133rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In Japanese, 缶 is the shinjitai form of 罐, but the two characters are historically irrelevant.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
External links
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