Radical 201

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Radical 201 or radical yellow (黃部) meaning "yellow" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

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(U+9EC3) "yellow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:huáng
Bopomofo:ㄏㄨㄤˊ
Wade–Giles:huang2
Cantonese Yale:wong4
Jyutping:wong4
Japanese Kana:コウ kō / オウ ō (on'yomi)
き ki (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:황 hwang
Hán-Việt:hoàng
Names
Japanese name(s):黄/き ki
Hangul:누를 nureul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

The xin zixing form of this radical, , is the 192nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

is also the Japanese simplified form (shinjitai) of this radical character.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0 SC/JP (=黃)
+4
+5 SC (=黌)
+6
+13

Variant forms

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This radical has different forms in different languages or characters.

Kangxi Dict.
Japanese hyōgai
Korean
Trad. Chinese (Hong Kong)
Trad. Chinese (Taiwan) Simp. Chinese
Japanese jōyō

While Hong Kong and Taiwan have selected different forms as their standards, the two traditional forms are often interchangeable.

In Japanese, the simplified (shinjitai) form is used in jōyō kanji (e.g. ), while the traditional form is used in hyōgai kanji (e.g. ).

See also

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Literature

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  • 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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