Radical 170 or radical mound (阜部) meaning "mound" or "dam" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into 阝 (counted as 3 strokes in Traditional Chinese, 2 strokes in Simplified Chinese) when used as a left component (Not to be confused with 阝 on the right derived from 邑).
| 阜 | ||
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| 阜 (U+961C) "mound, dam" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | fù | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄈㄨˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | fu4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | fau6 | |
| Jyutping: | fau6 | |
| Japanese Kana: | フ fu / フウ fū (on'yomi) おか oka (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 부 bu | |
| Hán-Việt: | phụ | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (⻖) 左耳旁 zuǒ'ěrpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | こざとへん kozatohen 岐阜の阜 Gifu no fu | |
| Hangul: | 언덕 eondeok | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 348 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
阜 is also the 175th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 阝 (left) listed as its associated indexing component.
Evolution
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
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| +0 | 阜 阝 |
| +2 | 阞 队SC (=隊) |
| +3 | 阠 阡 阢 阣 阤 |
| +4 | 阥 (=陰) 阦 (=陽) 阧 阨 (=厄 -> 厂) 阩 阪 阫 阬 阭 阮 阯 (=址 -> 土) 阰 阱 防 阳SC (=陽) 阴SC (=陰) 阵SC (=陣) 阶SC (=階) |
| +5 | 阷 阸 阹 阺 阻 阼 阽 阾 (=嶺 -> 山 鄰 -> 邑) 阿 陀 陁 陂 陃 附 际SC (=際) 陆SC (=陸) 陇SC (=隴) 陈SC (=陳) 陉SC (=陘) |
| +6 | 陊 陋 陌 降 陎 陏 限 陑 陒 陓 陔 陕SC (=陝) |
| +7 | 陖 陗 (=峭 -> 山) 陘 陙 陛 陜 (=狹 -> 犬 / 峽 -> 山) 陝 陞 (=升 -> 十) 陟 陠 陡 院 陣 除 陥JP (=陷) 陦SC (=隯) 陧SC (=隉) 陨SC (=隕) 险SC (=險) |
| +8 | 陚 陪 陫 陬 陭 陮 陯 陰 陱 陲 陳 陴 陵 陶 陷 陸 陹 険JP (=險) |
| +9 | 陻 (=堙 -> 土) 陼 陽 陾 陿 (=狹 -> 犬) 隀 隁 隂 (=陰) 隃 隄 (=堤 -> 土) 隅 隆 隇 隈 隉 隊 隋 隌 隍 階 随SC/JP (=隨) 隐SC (=隱) |
| +10 | 隑 隒 隓 隔 隕 隖 (=塢 -> 土) 隗 隘 隙 |
| +11 | 隚 際 障 隝 (=島 -> 山) 隞 隟 (=隙) 隠JP (=隱) 隡 |
| +12 | 隢 隣 (=鄰 -> 邑) 隤 隥 |
| +13 | 隦 隧 隨 隩 險 隫 |
| +14 | 隬 隭 隮 隯 隰 隱 隲 (=騭 -> 馬) |
| +15 | 隳 |
| +16 | 隴 |
| +17 | 隵 |
Kanji
editThis kanji is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji or kanji taught in Japanese elementary schools that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.[1] It was added because it is the second character in Gifu (岐阜県).[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "小学校の必修漢字に都道府県名２０字追加 ２０年度にも". 朝日新聞デジタル. 2016-05-18. Archived from the original on 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
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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