Radical 103
| 疋 | ||
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| 疋 (U+758B) "bolt of cloth" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | pǐ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄆㄧˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | p'i3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | pat1 | |
| Jyutping: | pat1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ショ sho / ソ so / ガ ga / ゲ ge (on'yomi) あし ashi / ひき hiki (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 소 so | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 疋/ひき hiki (𤴔) 疋偏/ひきへん hikihen | |
| Hangul: | 발 bal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 103 or radical bolt of cloth (疋部) meaning "bolt of cloth" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes. When appearing at the left side of a character, it transforms into 𤴔.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 15 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
疋 is also the 118th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𤴔 being its associated indexing component.
Evolution
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Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 疋 |
| +3 | 疌 |
| +5 | 疍 |
| +6 | 疏 |
| +7 | 疎 |
| +9 | 疐 疑 |
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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