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Radical 206

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Radical 206 meaning "sacrificial tripod" or "three-legged cauldron" (鼎部) is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.

Pinyin:dǐng
Bopomofo:ㄉㄧㄥˇ
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Radical 206 (U+2FCD)
207 
(U+9F0E) "sacrificial tripod, cauldron"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:dǐng
Bopomofo:ㄉㄧㄥˇ
Wade–Giles:ting3
Cantonese Yale:ding2
Jyutping:ding2
Japanese Kana:テイ tei
かなえ kanae
Sino-Korean:정 jeong
Hán-Việt:đỉnh
Names
Japanese name(s):鼎 kanae
Hangul:솥 sot
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In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 14 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Evolution

鼎 ("cauldron") + ("two hands")

Phono-semantic compound: semantic 鼎/ + phonetic 𠂈 (*tˤiŋ).

Characters with Radical 206

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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.

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