Radical 59 or radical bristle (彡部) meaning "bristle" or "beard" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes. It is extremely similar to the katakana Mi, the only difference is being flipped 180 degrees.
| 彡 | ||
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| 彡 (U+5F61) "bristle, beard" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shān | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄢ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shan | |
| Wade–Giles: | shan1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sāam | |
| Jyutping: | saam1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | sam | |
| Japanese Kana: | サン san (on'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 삼 sam | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 三撇 sānpiě | |
| Japanese name(s): | 彡旁/さんづくり sanzukuri 髪飾り/かみかざり kamikazari | |
| Hangul: | 터럭 teoreok | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 62 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
彡 is also the 42nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution edit
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Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters edit
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 彡 |
| +4 | 形 彣 彤 |
| +6 | 彥 彦SC/JP (=彥) 须SC (=須 -> 頁 / 鬚 -> 髟) |
| +7 | 彧 彨 (=彲) |
| +8 | 彩 彪 彫JP/variant (=雕 -> 隹) 彬 |
| +9 | 彭 |
| +10 | 彮 |
| +11 | 彯 彰 |
| +12 | 影 |
| +19 | 彲 |
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.
External links edit
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