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Radical 58
Radical 58 or radical snout (彐部) meaning "pig snout" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
彐 | ||
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彐 (U+5F50) "pig snout" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | jì | |
Bopomofo: | ㄐㄧˋ | |
Wade–Giles: | chi4 | |
Cantonese Yale: | gai | |
Jyutping: | gai3 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kī | |
Japanese Kana: | ケイ kei (on'yomi) けいがしら keigashira (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 계 gye | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 雪字底 xuězìdǐ 尋字頭/寻字头 xúnzìtóu | |
Japanese name(s): | 彑頭/けいがしら keigashira 豕頭/いのこがしら inokogashira | |
Hangul: | 돼지머리 dwaeji meori | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
彐 is also the 50 indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, ⺕ and 彑, are affiliated to the principal indexing component 彐.
Evolution
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Literature
- 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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 058.
- Unihan Database - U+5F50