Radical 131
Chinese character radical
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Radical 131 or radical minister (臣部) meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 臣 | |
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Radical 131 (U+2F82)
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| 臣 (U+81E3) "minister, official" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | chén |
| Bopomofo: | ㄔㄣˊ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | chern |
| Wade–Giles: | chʻên2 |
| Cantonese Yale: | sàhn |
| Jyutping: | san4 |
| Japanese Kana: | シン shin / ジン jin (on'yomi) おみ omi (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 신 sin |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 臣/しん shin |
| Hangul: | 신하 sinha |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
臣 is also the 125th 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
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.[1]
