Radical 135
Radical 135 or radical tongue (舌部) meaning "tongue" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
舌 | ||
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舌 (U+820C) "tongue" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | shé | |
Bopomofo: | ㄕㄜˊ | |
Wade–Giles: | she2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | sit6 | |
Jyutping: | sit6, sit3 | |
Japanese Kana: | セツ setsu / ゼチ zechi (on'yomi) した shita (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 설 seol | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | (Left) 舌字旁 shézìpáng | |
Japanese name(s): | 舌/した shita | |
Hangul: | 혀 hyeo | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
舌 is also the 134th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
- Oracle bone script character
- Large seal script character
- Small seal script character
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 舌 |
+2 | 舍 舎JP (=舍) 舏 |
+4 | 舐 |
+5 | 舑 |
+6 | 舒 |
+8 | 舓 (=舐) 舔 舕 |
+9 | 舖 (=鋪 -> 金) 舗 |
+10 | 舘 (=館 -> 食) |
+12 | 舙 (=話 -> 言 / 咠 -> 口) |
+13 | 舚 |
Variant forms
In the Kangxi Dictionary and in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, this radical character begins with a horizontal stroke, while in other languages, it begins with a left-falling stroke.
Kangxi Dictionary Modern Trad. Chinese |
Simp. Chinese Japanese Korean |
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舌 | 舌 |
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 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.