Radical 203
Chinese character radical
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Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.
| 黑 | |
|---|---|
Radical 203 (U+2FCA)
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| 黑 (U+9ED1) "black" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | hēi |
| Bopomofo: | ㄏㄟ |
| Wade–Giles: | hei1 |
| Cantonese Yale: | haak1, hak1 |
| Jyutping: | haak1, hak1 |
| Japanese Kana: | コク koku (on'yomi) くろ kuro / くろ-い kuro-i (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 흑 heuk |
| Hán-Việt: | hắc |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 黒/くろ kuro |
| Hangul: | 검을 geomeu |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
黑 is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
This radical character is simplified as 黒 in Japanese jōyō kanji.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze 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.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
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