Radical 100

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Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.[1]

← 99 Radical 100 (U+2F63) 101 →
(U+751F) "life"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shēng
Bopomofo:ㄕㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:sheng
Wade–Giles:shêng1
Cantonese Yale:sāang
Jyutping:saang1
Japanese Kana:セイ sei / ショウ shō (on'yomi)
い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:생 saeng
Names
Japanese name(s):いきる ikiru
うまれる umareru
せい sei
しょう shō
Hangul:날 nal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 109th 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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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
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+4
+5
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+7
+9


Sinogram

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The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[2] It is a first grade kanji.[2]

The character alone is present in the phrase worship of the living.

References

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  1. ^ "Unihan data for Unihan data for U+751F". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
  2. ^ 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.

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