Radical 155 or radical red (赤部) meaning "red" or "bare" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

← 154 Radical 155 (U+2F9A) 156 →
(U+8D64) "red, bare"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chì
Bopomofo:ㄔˋ
Wade–Giles:ch'ih4
Cantonese Yale:chek3, chik3
Jyutping:cek3, cik3
Japanese Kana:セキ seki / シャク shaku (on'yomi)
あか aka (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:적 jeok
Names
Japanese name(s):赤/あか aka
赤偏/あかへん akahen
Hangul:붉을 bulgeul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 151st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution edit

Derived characters edit

Strokes Characters
+0
+4
+6 SC (=赬)
+7
+9
+10

Sinogram edit

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]


References edit

  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.

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.

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