Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.
| 黑 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 黑 (U 9ED1) "black" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | hēi | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄏㄟ | |
| Wade–Giles: | hei1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | haak1, hak1 | |
| Jyutping: | haak1, hak1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | コク koku (on'yomi) くろ kuro / くろ-い kuro-i (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 흑 heuk | |
| Hán-Việt: | hắc | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 黒/くろ kuro | |
| Hangul: | 검을 geomeu | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
黑 is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
This radical character is simplified as 黒 in Japanese jōyō kanji.
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 | 黑 黒JP (=黑) |
| 3 | 墨SC/TC/KO/墨JP 黓 |
| 4 | 黔 黕 黖 黗 默 |
| 5 | 黚 黛 黜 黝 點 |
| 6 | 黟 黠 黡SC (=黶) |
| 7 | 黢 黣 |
| 8 | 黤 黥 黦 黧 黨 黩SC (=黷) 黪SC (=黲) |
| 9 | 黫 黬 黭 黮 黯 |
| 10 | 黰 黱 |
| 11 | 黲 黳 黴 |
| 13 | 黵 |
| 14 | 黶 |
| 15 | 黷 |
| 16 | 黸 |
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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