Radical 12
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ハ ha (kana) | ||
| Hangul: | 여덟 yeodeol | |
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Radical 12 or radical eight (八部), meaning strokes. "八" is two bent lines that signal divide. Eight is the single-digit number that can be divided by two the greatest number of times.
In the radical.
八 is also the 11th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. 丷 is an associated indexing component affiliated to the principal component 八.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
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| +0 | 八 |
| +2 | 公 六 兮 兯KO |
| +3 | 兰SC (=蘭 -> 艸) |
| +4 | 共 兲 (=天 -> 大) 关SC (=關 -> 門) 兴SC (=興 -> 臼) |
| +5 | 㒵 (=貌 -> 豸) 㒶 (=公) 㒷 (=興 -> 臼) 兵 |
| +6 | 其 具 典 |
| +7 | 㒸 兹SC/variant (=茲 -> 艸) 养SC (=養 -> 食) |
| +8 | 兺KO 兼 |
| +9 | 兽SC (=獸 -> 犬) |
| +11 | 兾/兾 (=冀) 兿 (=藝 -> 艸) |
| +14 | 冀 |
| +16 | 冁SC (=囅 -> 口) |
| +18 | 㒹 (=顛 -> 頁) |
Variant forms
There is a design nuance in different printing typefaces for this radical. In the Traditional Chinese fonts. In Japanese typeface, the presence of the short line depends on each typeface's design.
The short horizontal line exists only in printing typeface, not in any handwriting form.
| with a short line | without the short line |
|---|---|
| 八 | 八 |
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: 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 126, character 26
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1450
- Dae Jaweon: page 274, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 241, character 3
External links
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above. | |
