Radical 42
Radical 42 or radical small (小部) meaning "small" or "insignificant" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
小 | ||
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小 (U+5C0F) "small, insignificant" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | xiǎo | |
Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧㄠˇ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | sheau | |
Wade–Giles: | hsiao3 | |
Cantonese Yale: | síu | |
Jyutping: | siu2 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | siáu | |
Japanese Kana: | ショウ shō (on'yomi) ちい-さい chii-sai (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 소 so | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | (Top) 小字頭/小字头 xiǎozìtóu | |
Japanese name(s): | 小/しょう shō (Top) 小頭/しょうがしら shōgashira (Top) 尚頭/なおがしら naogashira | |
Hangul: | 작을 jageul | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 41 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
小 is also the 36th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Its inversed form ⺌ is the associated indexing component affiliated to the principal indexing component 小.
Evolution
- Oracle bone script character
- Bronze script character
- Large seal script character
- Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 小 |
+1 | 尐 少 |
+2 | 尒 (=爾 -> 爻) 尓 (=爾) 尔SC (=爾) 尕 |
+3 | 尖 尗 尘SC (=塵 -> 土) 当SC/JP (=當 -> 田) |
+5 | 尙Kangxi/KO (=尚) 尚 |
+6 | 尛 尜 尝SC (=嘗/嚐 -> 口) |
+9 | 尞 |
+10 | 尟 尠 |
+11 | 尡 |
Sinogram
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.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]
References
- "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
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.
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