Radical 97
| 瓜 | ||
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| 瓜 (U+74DC) "melon" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | guā | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄚ | |
| Wade–Giles: | kua1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gwā | |
| Jyutping: | gwaa1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | カ ka (on'yomi) うり uri (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 과 gwa | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 瓜字旁 guāzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 瓜/うり uri | |
| Hangul: | 오이 oi | |
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Radical 97 or radical melon (瓜部) meaning "strokes (6 strokes in Japanese).
In the radical.
瓜 is also the 113th 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 |
|---|---|
| +0 | 瓜 |
| +3 | 瓝 |
| +5 | 瓞 瓟 |
| +6 | 瓠 |
| +8 | 瓡 |
| +11 | 瓢 |
| +14 | 瓣 |
| +17 | 瓤 |
| +19 | 瓥 |
Variant forms
There is a design nuance between the form of 瓜 in modern Japanese and in other languages. Traditionally, the character consists of five
strokes. In Japanese kanji simplification, however, the third stroke (i.e. a vertical-horizontal turning stroke) was broken into two strokes, and 瓜 became a six-stroke radical character. This change also applies to hyōgai kanji
.
| Chinese (Mainland China) |
Chinese (Taiwan) |
Modern Japanese |
|---|---|---|
| 瓜 | 瓜 | 瓜 |
| 瓞 | 瓞 | 瓞 |
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.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
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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. | |
