Radical 53

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广
← 52 Radical 53 (U+2F34) 54 →
广 (U+5E7F) "house on cliff"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:yǎn
Bopomofo:ㄧㄢˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:yean
Wade–Giles:yen3
Cantonese Yale:yím
Jyutping:jim2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:iám
Japanese Kana:ゲン gen (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:엄 eom
Names
Chinese name(s):廣字頭/广字头 guǎngzìtóu
Japanese name(s):麻垂/まだれ madare
Hangul:집 jip
Stroke order animation

Radical 53 or radical dotted

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广 is also the 46th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In addition, this character is also the simplified form of guǎng, hence called 廣字頭/广字头 guǎngzìtóu chiefly by Simplified Chinese users.

Evolution

  • Bronze script character
    Bronze script
    character
  • Large Seal Script Character
    Large Seal Script
    Character
  • Small Seal Script Character
    Small Seal Script
    Character

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 广 (also SC form of )
+2 JP (=廳) (= -> ) JP (=)
+3 (also SC from of 莊 -> ) (= -> ) SC (= -> )
+4 SC (=廬) SC (=廡) (=庄= -> ) SC (=庫) SC (= -> )
+5 SC (=廟) SC (=龐) SC (=廢)
+6
+7
+8 (=庶) SC (=廎)
+9 (= -> ) 庿 (=廟) JP (=廢)
+10
+11 (=廄) (=廄) GB TC variant
+12 Traditional variant
+13 SC (=廩)
+15
+16
+17 (=廳)
+18
+19
+22

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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