Radical 36
Radical 36 or radical evening (夕部) meaning "evening" or "sunset" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
夕 | ||
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夕 (U+5915) "evening, sunset" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | xī, xì | |
Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shi, shih | |
Wade–Giles: | hsi1, hsi4 | |
Cantonese Yale: | jihk | |
Jyutping: | zik6 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | se̍k | |
Japanese Kana: | セキ seki (on'yomi) ゆう yū / ゆうべ yūbe (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 석 seok | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | 夕/ゆうべ/ゆう yūbe/yū タ/た ta | |
Hangul: | 저녁 jeonyeok | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
夕 is also the 43rd 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
- Large seal script character
- Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 夕 |
+2 | 外 夗 夘 |
+3 | 夙 多 夛 (=多) 名 |
+5 | 夜 夝 (=晴 -> 日) |
+7 | 夞KO 够SC/variant (=夠) 夠 |
+8 | 梦SC/variant (=夢) |
+9 | 夡 |
+11 | 夢 夣 夤 夥 |
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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