Radical 24

Radical 24 or radical ten (十部) meaning ten, complete, or perfect is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

Radical 24 (U+2F17)
(U+5341) "ten"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shí
Bopomofo:ㄕˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:shyr
Wade–Giles:shih2
Cantonese Yale:sahp
Jyutping:sap6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:cha̍p (col.)
si̍p (lit.)
Japanese Kana:ジュウ jū (on'yomi)
と to / とお tō (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:십 sip
Names
Japanese name(s):十偏 jūhen
Hangul:열 yeol
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

is also the 6th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now /针), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape.

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1
+2 JP nonstandard (=卒)
+3
+4 (= -> ) SC (= -> ) SC (=協) SC (= -> )
+5
+6SC (= -> ) SC (= -> ) SC (= -> )
+7
+8
+9
+10
+19 SC (= -> )

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.
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
  • KangXi: page 155, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
  • Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9
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