Radical 56

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← 55 Radical 56 (U+2F37) 57 →
(U+5F0B) "shoot, arrow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:i4
Cantonese Yale:yihk
Jyutping:jik6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:e̍k
Japanese Kana:ヨク yoku (on'yomi)
いぐるみ igurumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:익 ik
Names
Japanese name(s):式構/しきがまえ shikigamae
Hangul:주살 jusal
Stroke order animation

Radical 56 or radical shoot (弋部) meaning "

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radical
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is also the 35th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+1 (= -> , one)
+2
Radical
, two)
+3 (= -> , three) (type, ceremony, formula, etc.) (= -> )
+9 SC/variant (=弒)
+10 (to murder one's sovereign or parents)

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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