Radical 200
Radical 200 or radical hemp (麻部) meaning "hemp" or "flax" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes. Historically, it is the Chinese word for cannabis.
麻 | ||
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麻 (U+9EBB) "hemp, flax" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | má | |
Bopomofo: | ㄇㄚˊ | |
Wade–Giles: | ma2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | ma4 | |
Jyutping: | maa4 | |
Japanese Kana: | マ ma / バ ba (on'yomi) あさ asa (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 마 ma | |
Hán-Việt: | ma, mà, mơ | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | 麻/あさ asa 麻冠/あさかんむり asakanmuri | |
Hangul: | 삼 sam | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
麻 is also the 193rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
- Bronze script character
- Large seal script character
- Small seal script character
Variant forms
- Radical 200 in the Kangxi Dictionary
- A variant form
- Standard form in Traditional Chinese
- Standard form in Japanese
- Standard form in Simplified Chinese
Simogram
As an independent sinogram 麻 is a Jōyō kanji, or a Kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.[1] It means cannabis and is part of Onusa
See Also
References
- "KANJI-Link". www.kanji-link.com. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
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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