Radical 67
Chinese character radical
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Radical 67 or radical script (文部) meaning "script" or "literature" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 文 | |
|---|---|
Radical 67
(U+2F42)
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| 文 (U+6587) "script, literature" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | wén |
| Bopomofo: | ㄨㄣˊ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | wen |
| Wade–Giles: | wên2 |
| Cantonese Yale: | màhn, mahn |
| Jyutping: | man4, man6 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | bûn |
| Japanese Kana: | ブン bun / モン mon (on'yomi) ふみ fumi (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 문 mun |
| Hán-Việt: | văn |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | (Top) 文字頭/文字头 wénzìtóu 文字旁 wénzìpáng |
| Japanese name(s): | 文/ぶん bun 文繞/ぶんにょう bunnyō 文旁/ふみづくり fumizukuri |
| Hangul: | 글월 geurwol |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
文 is also the 93rd 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
The Unihan Database classifies the Simplified Chinese character 齐 and Japanese shinjitai 斉 and 斎 under this radical. However, 齐 actually belongs to radical 齐 (齊) (Simplified Chinese characters radical #140, =Kangxi Radical 210) in mainland China's standard[1] and Simplified Chinese dictionaries; 斉 and 斎 usually falls under radical 斉 (齊) (or "齊 (斉)" depending on each dictionary's standard) in Japanese dictionaries.
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.[2] It is a first grade kanji.[2]
