Radical 65
Radical 65 or radical branch (支部) meaning "branch" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
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支 (U+652F) "branch" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | zhī | |
Bopomofo: | ㄓ | |
Wade–Giles: | chih1 | |
Cantonese Yale: | jī | |
Jyutping: | zi1 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | chi | |
Japanese Kana: | シ shi (on'yomi) ささ-える sasa-eru (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 지 ji | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 支字旁 zhīzìpáng 支字底 zhīzìdǐ | |
Japanese name(s): | 支える/ささえる 支繞/しにょう shinyō 枝繞/えだにょう edanyō 十又/じゅうまた jūmata | |
Hangul: | 지탱할 jitaenghal | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
支 is also the 65th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
- Large seal script character
- Small seal script character
Character
In the Japanese educational system the character 支 is a Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fifth 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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