Radical 27

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← 26 Radical 27 (U+2F1A) 28 →
(U+5382) "cliff"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:hǎn
Bopomofo:ㄏㄢˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:haan
Wade–Giles:han3
Cantonese Yale:hon
Jyutping:hon3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:hàn
Japanese Kana:カン kan (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:한 han
Names
Chinese name(s):(Simp.) 厂字头 chǎngzìtóu
Japanese name(s):雁垂れ/がんだれ gandare
Hangul:굴바위 gulbawi
Stroke order animation

Radical 27 or radical cliff (厂部) meaning "

strokes
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In the

radical
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is also the 7th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𠂆 being its associated indexing component. Though the Chinese character shares the same form as the simplified form of (chǎng, variant: ) which means "factory", the two are historically irrelevant in terms of meanings.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 SC (= -> 广) SC (=歷/曆)
+3 SC/JP variant (=)
+4 SC (= -> ) SC (=厭)
+5 SC (=) SC (=龎= -> 广)
+6 SC (= -> 广)
+7 (= -> 广)
+8
+9 JP/variant (= -> 广) (=) SC/variant (= -> 广) SC (=) SC/JP/variant (= -> 广)
+10 SC/variant (= -> 广) SC/JP/variant (= -> 广)
+11
+12 (=) (= -> 广)
+13
+17
+28

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: .
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). .

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