Radical 186
Chinese character radical
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Radical 186, meaning "fragrant" (香部), is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
| 香 | |
|---|---|
Radical 186 (U+2FB9)
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| 香 (U+9999) "fragrant" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | xiāng |
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧㄤ |
| Wade–Giles: | hsiang1 |
| Cantonese Yale: | heung1 |
| Jyutping: | hoeng1 |
| Japanese Kana: | コウ kō/ キョウ kyō (on'yomi) か ka / かお-る kao-ru / かおり kaori (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 향 hyang |
| Hán-Việt: | hương |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | かおり kaori 匂い香/においコウ nioikō |
| Hangul: | 향기 hyanggi |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 37 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
香 is also the 183rd 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
As an isolated character is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1]
It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.[2] It was added because it is a character in 香 (Kagawa).[2]
