Radical 175
Radical 175 or radical wrong (非部) meaning "wrong" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.
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非 (U+975E) "wrong" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | fēi | |
Bopomofo: | ㄈㄟ | |
Wade–Giles: | fei1 | |
Cantonese Yale: | fei1 | |
Jyutping: | fei1 | |
Japanese Kana: | ヒ hi (on'yomi) あら-ず ara-zu (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 비 bi | |
Hán-Việt: | phi, phỉ | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | あらず arazu | |
Hangul: | 아닐 anil | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
非 is also the 171st 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
- Bronze script character
- Small seal script character
Variant forms
This radical character is written differently in Simplified Chinese compared with other languages. In mainland China's writing reform, xin zixing, or the new printing typeface, adopted a more vulgar and symmetric form 非. This change may also be applied to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China.
- 非 in Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean
- 非 in Simplified Chinese
Kanji
In the Japanese educational system this is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] Students are required to learn it in the fitth grade.[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.