Radical 4
| 丿 | ||
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| 丿 (U+4E3F) "slash" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | piě | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄆ一ㄝˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | p'ieh3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | pit | |
| Jyutping: | pit3 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | phia̍t | |
| Japanese Kana: | ヘツ hetsu (on'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 별 byeol | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 撇 piě | |
| Japanese name(s): | ノ no はらいぼう haraibō | |
| Hangul: | 삐침 ppichim | |
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Radical 4 or radical slash (丿部) meaning "slash" or "bend" is one of 6 of the 214
stroke
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In the radical.
It is highly similar to the Japanese katakana, no (ノ), thus colloquially referred to as "no" in Japanese.
丿 is also the 4th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
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| +0 | 丿 乀 乁 |
| +1 | 乂 乃 乄JP |
| +2 | 久 乆 (=久) 乇 么 (also SC form of 麼 -> 广) 义SC (=義 -> 羊) 乊 之 乡SC (=鄉 -> 邑) |
| +3 | 乌SC (=烏 -> 火) 乏 |
| +4 | 乍 乎 乐SC (=樂 -> 木) |
| +5 | 丢 眾 乒 乓 乔SC (=喬 -> 口) |
| +6 | 乕 (=虎 -> 虍) |
| +7 | 乖 |
| +8 | 乗JP (=乘) |
| +9 | 乘 |
In calligraphy
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The 6th principle stroke 掠 lüè as in 永 -
The 7th principle stroke 啄 zhuó as in 永
The only left-falling stroke in Radical 4, known as 撇 piě, is basic to Chinese calligraphy. It has two different forms, 掠 lüè and zhuó, in the eight principles of 永 (永字八法 Yǒngzì Bāfǎ).
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 (1993). Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases. Beijing. ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2.)
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 004.
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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. | |
