Radical 58

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← 57 Radical 58 (U+2F39) 59 →
(U+5F50) "pig snout"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄐㄧˋ
Wade–Giles:chi4
Cantonese Yale:gai
Jyutping:gai3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Japanese Kana:ケイ kei (on'yomi)
けいがしら keigashira (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:계 gye
Names
Chinese name(s):雪字底 xuězìdǐ
尋字頭/寻字头 xúnzìtóu
Japanese name(s):彑頭/けいがしら keigashira
豕頭/いのこがしら inokogashira
Hangul:돼지머리 dwaeji meori
Stroke order animation

Radical 58 or radical snout (彐部) meaning "

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In the

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is also the 50 indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, and , are affiliated to the principal indexing component .

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2 SC(= -> )
+3 SC/JP(= -> )
+5 SC (= -> / 彔)
+6
+7
+8
+9
+10 (=彙)
+13 (=彝) (=彝)
+15 (=彝)
+19 SC (=彠)
+23

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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