Radical 100
Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.[1]
| 生 | ||
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| 生 (U+751F) "life" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shēng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄥ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | sheng | |
| Wade–Giles: | shêng1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sāang | |
| Jyutping: | saang1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | セイ sei / ショウ shō (on'yomi) い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 생 saeng | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | いきる ikiru うまれる umareru せい sei しょう shō | |
| Hangul: | 날 nal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
生 is also the 109th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Literature
- 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.
References
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 100. |
- "Unihan data for Unihan data for U+751F". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
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