Radical 186, meaning "fragrant", is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
| 香 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 香 (U+9999) "fragrant" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | xiāng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧㄤ | |
| Wade–Giles: | hsiang1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | heung1 | |
| Jyutping: | hoeng1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | コウ kō/ キョウ kyō (on'yomi) か ka / かお-る kao-ru / かおり kaori (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 향 hyang | |
| Hán-Việt: | hương | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | かおり kaori 匂い香/においコウ nioikō | |
| Hangul: | 향기 hyanggi | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 37 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
香 is also the 183rd 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 | 香 |
| +4 | 馚 |
| +5 | 馛 馜 馝 |
| +7 | 馞 馟 馠 |
| +8 | 馡 馢 馣 |
| +9 | 馤 馥 |
| +10 | 馦 馧 |
| +11 | 馨 |
| +12 | 馩 |
| +14 | 馪 |
| +18 | 馫 (=馨) |
Kanji
editAs an isolated character is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1]
It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.[2] It was added because it is a character in 香 (Kagawa).[2]
References
edit- ^ "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
- ^ 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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