Radical 200

Radical 200 or radical hemp (麻部) meaning "hemp" or "flax" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes. Historically, it is the Chinese word for cannabis.

麻
Radical 200 (U+2FC7)
麻 (U+9EBB) "hemp, flax"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	má
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄚˊ
Wade–Giles:	ma2
Cantonese Yale:	ma4
Jyutping:	maa4
Japanese Kana:	マ ma / バ ba (on'yomi) あさ asa (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	마 ma
Hán-Việt:	ma, mà, mơ
Names
Japanese name(s):	麻/あさ asa 麻冠/あさかんむり asakanmuri
Hangul:	삼 sam
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

麻 is also the 193rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	麻
+3	麼 麽 (=麼)
+4	麾
+7	麿
+8	黀
+9	黁
+13	黂 (=𪎰)

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/麻

Variant forms

• 
  Radical 200 in the Kangxi Dictionary
• 
  A variant form
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  Standard form in Traditional Chinese
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  Standard form in Japanese
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  Standard form in Simplified Chinese

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 麻 is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji. It is part of taima (大麻), a Japanese word for cannabis.

See also

• List of jōyō kanji
• Jingu Taima

Literature

• 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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+9EBB