Radical 79 or radical weapon (殳部) meaning "weapon" or "lance" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 殳 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 殳 (U+6BB3) "weapon, lance" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shū | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄨ | |
| Wade–Giles: | shu1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | syùh | |
| Jyutping: | syu4 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | sû | |
| Japanese Kana: | シュ shu (on'yomi) ほこ hoko (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 수 su | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 殳/ほこ hoko 殳旁/ほこづくり hokozukuri ル又/るまた rumata | |
| Hangul: | 칠 chil | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 93 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
殳 is also the 92nd 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 -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 殳 |
| +5 | 殴SC/JP (=毆) 段 殶 |
| +6 | 殷 殸 殹 殺 |
| +7 | 殻JP/GB TC/variant (=殼) |
| +8 | 殼 殽 |
| +9 | 殾 殿 毀 毁SC (=毀) 毂SC (=轂 -> 車) |
| +10 | 毃 毄 |
| +11 | 毅 毆 |
| +12 | 毇 毈 |
| +15 | 毉 |
| +19 | 毊 |
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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