Radical 131
臣 | ||
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臣 (U+81E3) "minister, official" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | chén | |
Bopomofo: | ㄔㄣˊ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | chern | |
Wade–Giles: | chʻên2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | sàhn | |
Jyutping: | san4 | |
Japanese Kana: | シン shin / ジン jin (on'yomi) おみ omi (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 신 sin | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | 臣/しん shin | |
Hangul: | 신하 sinha | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 131 or radical minister (臣部) meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
臣 is also the 125th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
[edit]- Oracle bone script character
- Bronze script character
- Small seal script character
Derived characters
[edit]Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 臣 |
+2 | 臤 臥 |
+6 | 臦 |
+8 | 臧 |
+11 | 臨 臩 |
Sinogram
[edit]As an independent sinogram it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.[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.
Further reading
[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.
External links
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