Radical 74 or radical moon (月部) meaning "moon" or "month" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 月 | ||
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| 月 (U 6708) "moon, month" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | yuè | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄩㄝˋ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | yueh | |
| Wade–Giles: | yüeh4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | yuht | |
| Jyutping: | jyut6 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | goa̍t | |
| Japanese Kana: | ゲツ getsu / ガツ gatsu (on'yomi) つき tsuki (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 월 wol | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Left/right) 月字旁 yuèzìpáng (Bottom) 月字底 yuèzìdǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 月/つき tsuki 月偏/つきへん tsukihen | |
| Hangul: | 달 dal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary. there are 69 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
月 is also the 88th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Character with the alternative form of Kangxi Radical 130 (⺼ "meat") is merged to this radical in Simplified Chinese, and no associated indexing component is left after the merger.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| 0 | 月 |
| 2 | 有 |
| 4 | 朊 朋 朌 服 肭 |
| 5 | 朎 朏 朐 朑 胙 |
| 6 | 朒 朓 朔 朕 朗 朗 |
| 7 | 朖 朘 朙 (=明 -> 日) 朚 望 |
| 8 | 朜 朝 朞 (=期) 期 朠SC/JP variant |
| 9 | 朠TC variant 朡 |
| 10 | 朢 (=望) |
| 11 | 膤 |
| 12 | 朣 朤 朥 |
| 13 | 朦SC/JP variant |
| 14 | 朦TC variant |
| 16 | 朧 |
Sinogram
editThe radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
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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