Radical 2
Kangxi radical
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Radical 2 or radical line (丨部) meaning "vertically connected"[1] is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke.
| 丨 | |
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Radical 2
(U+2F01)
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| 丨 (U+4E28) "line, stick" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | gǔn |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄣˇ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | goen |
| Wade–Giles: | kun3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | kwán |
| Jyutping: | kwan2 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | khún |
| Japanese Kana: | コン kon (on'yomi) ぼう bō (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 곤 gonn |
| Hán-Việt: | cổn |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 豎/竖/竪 shù |
| Japanese name(s): | 棒/ぼう bō (stick) 縦棒/たてぼう tatebō (vertical stick) |
| Hangul: | 뚫을 tturheul |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are only 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
丨 is also the 2nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 亅 being its associated indexing component (used to be associated with 乛 prior to the new standard in 2009).
Evolution
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
In calligraphy
The only stroke in radical line, known as 豎/竖/竪 shù "vertical", is called 努 nǔ in the eight principles of the character 永 (永字八法 Yǒngzì Bāfǎ) which are the basis of Chinese calligraphy.
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.
- Leyi, Li (1993). Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases. Beijing. ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2.
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