Radical 59

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.

彡
Radical 59 (U+2F3A)
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

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

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+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

  • 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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.