Radical 146
Chinese character radical
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Radical 146 or radical west (襾部) meaning "cover" or "west" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 襾 | |
|---|---|
Radical 146 (U+2F91)
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| 襾 (U+897E) "cover, west" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | yà |
| Bopomofo: | ㄧㄚˋ |
| Wade–Giles: | ya4 |
| Cantonese Yale: | ka1, a3 |
| Jyutping: | kaa1, aa3 |
| Japanese Kana: | アカ aka / エケ eke (on'yomi) おおう oou (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 아 a |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 西字頭/西字头 xīzìtóu |
| Japanese name(s): | 西/にし nishi 覆冠/おおいかんむり ooikanmuri |
| Hangul: | 덮을 deopeul |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 29 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
覀, a variant form of 襾, is the 126th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 西 listed as its associated indexing component.
Evolution
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.
See also
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