Radical 127
Chinese character radical
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Radical 127 or radical plough (耒部) meaning "plough" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 耒 | |
|---|---|
Radical 127 (U+2F7E)
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| 耒 (U+8012) "plough" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | lěi |
| Bopomofo: | ㄌㄟˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | lei3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | leui6, loi6 |
| Jyutping: | leoi6, loi6 |
| Japanese Kana: | ライ rai (on'yomi) すき suki (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 뢰 roe |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | (Left) 耒偏/すきへん sukihen らいすき raisuki[1] |
| Hangul: | 쟁기 jaenggi |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 84 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
耒 is also the 122nd 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
Variant forms
Traditionally, the first stroke of this radical character is a right-to-left slash. In Simplified Chinese xin zixing, it becomes a horizontal stroke. A similar change was also applied to Japanese jōyō kanji, while hyōgai kanji remain unchanged.
| Trad. Chinese Korean |
Japanese | Simp. Chinese |
|---|---|---|
| 耒 耕 耘 | 耒 耕 耘 | 耒 耕 耘 |
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.
