Radical 175 or radical wrong (非部) meaning "wrong" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.
| 非 | ||
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| 非 (U+975E) "wrong" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | fēi | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄈㄟ | |
| Wade–Giles: | fei1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | fei1 | |
| Jyutping: | fei1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ヒ hi (on'yomi) あら-ず ara-zu (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 비 bi | |
| Hán-Việt: | phi, phỉ | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | あらず arazu | |
| Hangul: | 아닐 anil | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
非 is also the 171st 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 -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 非 |
| +4 | 靟 |
| +7 | 靠 |
| +11 | 靡 |
Variant forms
editThis radical character is written differently in Simplified Chinese compared with other languages. In mainland China's writing reform, xin zixing, or the new printing typeface, adopted a more vulgar and symmetric form 非. This change may also be applied to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China.
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非 in Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean -
非 in Simplified Chinese
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Kanji
editIn the Japanese educational system this is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] Students are required to learn it in the fifth grade.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
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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