Radical 131 or radical minister (臣部) meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
| 臣 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 臣 (U 81E3) "minister, official" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | chén | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄔㄣˊ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | chern | |
| Wade–Giles: | chʻên2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sàhn | |
| Jyutping: | san4 | |
| Japanese Kana: | シン shin / ジン jin (on'yomi) おみ omi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 신 sin | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 臣/しん shin | |
| Hangul: | 신하 sinha | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
臣 is also the 125th 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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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| 0 | 臣 |
| 2 | 臤 臥 |
| 6 | 臦 |
| 8 | 臧 |
| 11 | 臨 臩 |
Sinogram
editAs an independent sinogram it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth 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.
Further reading
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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