Radical 55 or radical two hands (廾部) meaning "two hands", "twenty" or "arch" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
| 廾 | ||
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| 廾 (U+5EFE) "two hands, arch" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gǒng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | kung3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gúng | |
| Jyutping: | gung2 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kióng | |
| Japanese Kana: | キョウ kyō (on'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 공 gong | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 弄字底 nòngzìdǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 拱き/こまぬき komanuki 廿脚/にじゅうあし nijūashi | |
| Hangul: | 들 teul | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 50 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
廾 is also the 32nd 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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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 廾 |
| +1 | 廿 开SC (=開 -> 門) |
| +2 | 弁 (also JP form of 辨 -> 辛 / 瓣 -> 瓜 / 辯 -> 辛) |
| +3 | 异SC/variant (=異 -> 田) |
| +4 | 弃SC/variant (=棄 -> 木) 弄 弅 |
| +5 | 弆 |
| +6 | 弇 弈 |
| +7 | 弉 |
| +12 | 弊 |
Literature
edit- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. 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.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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