Radical 45 or radical sprout (屮部) is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 屮 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 屮 (U 5C6E) "sprout" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | chè | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄔㄜˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ch'e4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | chit | |
| Jyutping: | cit3 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | tia̍t | |
| Japanese Kana: | テツ tetsu (on'yomi) ひだり hidari (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 철 cheol | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 屮/てつ tetsu 芽生え/めばえ mebae | |
| Hangul: | 풀, 싹날 pul, ssak nal | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
屮 is also the 55th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| 0 | 屮 |
| 1 | 屯 |
| 3 | 屰 |
Literature
edit- 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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