Radical 143

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Radical 143 or radical blood (血部) meaning "blood" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

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(U+8840) "blood"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:xuè
Bopomofo:ㄒㄩㄝˋ
Wade–Giles:hsüeh4
Cantonese Yale:hyut3
Jyutping:hyut3
Japanese Kana:ケツ ketsu / ケチ kechi (on'yomi)
ち chi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:혈 hyeol
Names
Japanese name(s):血/ち chi
(Left) 血偏/ちへん chihen
Hangul:피 pi
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 60 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 138th 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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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+3 (=衄)
+4
+5 SC (= -> )
+6 JP/KO/GB TC (= -> ) (= -> )
+15
+18

Sinogram

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As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a third grade kanji.[1]

References

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  1. ^ 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

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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.
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