Radical 214 meaning 'flute' is the only one of the 214 Kangxi radicals that is composed of 17 strokes, making it the radical that requires the most strokes.
| 龠 | ||
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| 龠 (U 9FA0) "flute" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | yuè | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄩㄝˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | yüeh4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | yeuk6 | |
| Jyutping: | joek6 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ヤク yaku ふえ fue | |
| Sino-Korean: | 약 yak | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 龠 yaku | |
| Hangul: | 피리 piri | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 21 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
龠 is also the 201st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Characters with Radical 214
edit| strokes | character |
|---|---|
| 0 | 龠 |
| 4 | 䶳 龡 𪛊 |
| 5 | 龢 |
| 8 | 䶴 龣 𪛋 𪛌 𪛍 |
| 9 | 龤 龥 𪛎 𪛏 𪛐 𪛑 |
| 10 | 䶵 𪛒 |
| 11 | 𪛓 |
| 12 | 𫜴 |
| 14 | 𪛔 |
| 16 | 𪛕 |
| 20 | 𪛖 |
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.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
External links
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