Radical 47 or radical river (巛部) meaning "river" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 巛 | ||
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| 巛 (U+5DDB) "river" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | chuān | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄔㄨㄢ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | chuan | |
| Wade–Giles: | chʻuan1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | chyūn[1] | |
| Jyutping: | cyun1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | chhoan | |
| Japanese Kana: | セン sen (on'yomi) かわ kawa (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 천 cheon | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 三拐 sānguǎi | |
| Japanese name(s): | 川/かわ kawa 曲がり川/まがりがわ magarigawa 曲げ川/まげかわ magekawa 三本川/さんぼんがわ sanbongawa | |
| Hangul: | 내 nae | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
巛 is also the 60th 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
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 巛 巜 川 |
| +3 | 州 巟 巠 巡 |
| +8 | 巢 巣JP (=巢) |
| +12 | 巤 |
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.
References
edit- ^ Erik E. Peterson. "On-line Chinese Tools - Chinese Character Dictionary". Retrieved 2011-04-08.
External links
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