Radical 175

Radical 175 or radical wrong (非部) meaning "wrong" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

非
Radical 175 (U+2FAE)
非 (U+975E) "wrong"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:fēi
Bopomofo:ㄈㄟ
Wade–Giles:fei1
Cantonese Yale:fei1
Jyutping:fei1
Japanese Kana:ヒ hi (on'yomi)
あら-ず ara-zu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:비 bi
Hán-Việt:phi, phỉ
Names
Japanese name(s):あらず arazu
Hangul:아닐 anil
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

非 is also the 171st 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非
+4靟
+7靠
+11靡

Variant forms

This radical character is written differently in Simplified Chinese compared with other languages. In mainland China's writing reform, xin zixing, or the new printing typeface, adopted a more vulgar and symmetric form 非. This change may also be applied to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China.

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.
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