Radical 57

Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

Radical 57 (U+2F38)
(U+5F13) "bow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:gōng
Bopomofo:ㄍㄨㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:gong
Wade–Giles:kung1
Cantonese Yale:gūng
Jyutping:gung1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:kiong
Japanese Kana:キュウ kyū (on'yomi)
ゆみ yumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:궁 gung
Names
Chinese name(s):弓字旁 gōngzìpáng
Japanese name(s):弓/ゆみ yumi
弓偏/ゆみへん yumihen
Hangul:활 hwal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 165 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 53rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4 SC (張)
+5
+6 SC/JP (=彎)
+7 SC (=弳)
+8 SC (=彈)
+9
+10弿 "ghost character" (= -> )
+11 JP
+12
+13 (=強)
+14
+15
+19
+20

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, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • 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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.