Radical 179 or radical leek (韭部) meaning "leek" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.[1]
| 韭 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 韭 (U+97ED) "leek" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | jiǔ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄐㄧㄡˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | chiu3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gau2 | |
| Jyutping: | gau2 | |
| Japanese Kana: | キュウ kyū (on'yomi) にら nira (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 구 gu | |
| Hán-Việt: | cửu | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 韭/にら nira | |
| Hangul: | 부추 buchu | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
韭 is also the 181st 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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Small seal script character
Derived characters edit
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 韭 |
| +4 | 韮 (=韭) |
| +6 | 韯 |
| +7 | 韰 |
| +8 | 韱 |
| +10 | 韲 (=齏 -> 齊) |
References edit
- ^ "Unihan data for U+97ED". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
Literature edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 179.
- 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.