Radical 153 or radical badger (豸部) meaning "badger" or "legless insect" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
| 豸 | ||
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| 豸 (U+8C78) "badger, legless insect" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | zhì | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄓˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | chih4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | jaai6, ji6 | |
| Jyutping: | zaai6, zi6 | |
| Japanese Kana: | チ chi / タイ tai (on'yomi) とける tokeru (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 치 chi | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 貉偏/むじなへん mujinahen | |
| Hangul: | 발 없는 벌레 bal eomneun beolle | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 140 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
豸 is also the 162nd 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 | 豸 |
| +3 | 豹 豺 豻 |
| +4 | 豼 豽 |
| +5 | 豾 豿 貀 貁 貂 貃 |
| +6 | 貄 貅 貆 貇 貈 貉 貊 |
| +7 | 貋 (=豻) 貌 貍 |
| +8 | 貎 貏 |
| +9 | 貐 貑 貒 貓 |
| +10 | 貔 貕 貖 |
| +11 | 貗 貘 貙 |
| +12 | 貚 |
| +18 | 貛 (=獾 -> 犬) |
| +20 | 貜 |
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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