Radical 48
Kangxi radical
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Radical 48 or radical work (工部) meaning "work" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 工 | |
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Radical 48
(U+2F2F)
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| 工 (U+5DE5) "work" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | gōng |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥ |
| Wade–Giles: | kung1 |
| Cantonese Yale: | gūng |
| Jyutping: | gung1 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kong |
| Japanese Kana: | コウ kō (on'yomi) たくみ takumi (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 공 gong |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 工字旁 gōngzìpáng |
| Japanese name(s): | 工/こう kō 工/たくみ takumi 工偏/たくみへん takumihen エ/え e |
| Hangul: | 장인 jang'in |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
工 is also the 28th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
