Radical 200
Chinese character radical
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Radical 200 or radical hemp (麻部) meaning "hemp" or "flax" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes. Historically, it is the Chinese word for cannabis.
| 麻 | |
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Radical 200 (U+2FC7)
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| 麻 (U+9EBB) "hemp, flax" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | má |
| Bopomofo: | ㄇㄚˊ |
| Wade–Giles: | ma2 |
| Cantonese Yale: | ma4 |
| Jyutping: | maa4 |
| Japanese Kana: | マ ma / バ ba (on'yomi) あさ asa (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 마 ma |
| Hán-Việt: | ma, mà, mơ |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 麻/あさ asa 麻冠/あさかんむり asakanmuri |
| Hangul: | 삼 sam |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
麻 is also the 193rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Variant forms
Radical 200 in the Kangxi Dictionary
A variant form
Standard form in Traditional Chinese
Standard form in Japanese
Standard form in Simplified Chinese
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Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 麻 is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.[1] It is part of taima (大麻), a Japanese word for cannabis.
