Radical 45
Chinese character radical
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Radical 45 or radical sprout (屮部) is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 屮 | |
|---|---|
Radical 45 (U+2F2C)
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| 屮 (U+5C6E) "sprout" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | chè |
| Bopomofo: | ㄔㄜˋ |
| Wade–Giles: | ch'e4 |
| Cantonese Yale: | chit |
| Jyutping: | cit3 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | tia̍t |
| Japanese Kana: | テツ tetsu (on'yomi) ひだり hidari (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 철 cheol |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 屮/てつ tetsu 芽生え/めばえ mebae |
| Hangul: | 풀, 싹날 pul, ssak nal |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
屮 is also the 55th 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
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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