Radical 78
Chinese character radical
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Radical 78 or radical death (歹部) meaning "death", "decay", "bad" or "vicious" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 歹 | |
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Radical 78 (U+2F4D)
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| 歹 (U+6B79) "death, decay" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | dǎi |
| Bopomofo: | ㄉㄞˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | tai3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | dáai |
| Jyutping: | aat3 daai2 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | tái |
| Japanese Kana: | ガツ gatsu (on'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 알 al |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 歹字旁 dǎizìpáng |
| Japanese name(s): | かばねへん kabanehen 歹/がつ gatsu 歹偏/がつへん gatsuhen 死構/しにがまえ shinigamae 一タ偏/いちたへん ichitahen 一夕偏/いっせきへん ichisekihen |
| Hangul: | 뼈앙상할 ppyeo angsanghal |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 231 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
歹 is also the 67th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 歺 being its associated indexing component.
Evolution
Oracle bone 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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