Radical 78 or radical death (歹部) meaning "death", "decay", "bad" or "vicious" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 歹 | ||
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| 歹 (U 6B79) "death, decay" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | dǎi | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄉㄞˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | tai3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | dáai | |
| Jyutping: | aat3 daai2 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | tái | |
| Japanese Kana: | ガツ gatsu (on'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 알 al | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 歹字旁 dǎizìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | かばねへん kabanehen 歹/がつ gatsu 歹偏/がつへん gatsuhen 死構/しにがまえ shinigamae 一タ偏/いちたへん ichitahen 一夕偏/いっせきへん ichisekihen | |
| Hangul: | 뼈앙상할 ppyeo angsanghal | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 231 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
歹 is also the 67th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 歺 being its associated indexing component.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| 0 | 歹 歺 |
| 2 | 死 |
| 3 | 歼SC (=殲) |
| 4 | 歽 歾 歿 殀 殁SC (=歿) |
| 5 | 殂 殃 殄 殅 殆 殇SC (=殤) |
| 6 | 殈 殉 殊 残SC/残JP (=殘) |
| 7 | 殌 殍 殎 殏 殐 殑 殒SC (=殞) 殓SC (=殮) |
| 8 | 殔 殕 殖SC/TC/殖Kangxi/JP/KO 殗 殘 殙 殚SC (=殫) |
| 9 | 殛 殜 |
| 10 | 殝 殞 殟 殠 殡SC (=殯) |
| 11 | 殢 殣 殤 殥 殦 |
| 12 | 殧 殨 殩 殪 殫 |
| 13 | 殬 殭 殮 |
| 14 | 殯 |
| 15 | 殰 殱 (=殲) |
| 17 | 殲 |
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.
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