Radical 36
Radical 36 or radical evening (夕部) meaning "evening" or "sunset" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 夕 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 夕 (U+5915) "evening, sunset" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | xī, xì | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shi, shih | |
| Wade–Giles: | hsi1, hsi4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | jihk | |
| Jyutping: | zik6 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | se̍k | |
| Japanese Kana: | セキ seki (on'yomi) ゆう yū / ゆうべ yūbe (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 석 seok | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 夕/ゆうべ/ゆう yūbe/yū タ/た ta | |
| Hangul: | 저녁 jeonyeok | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
夕 is also the 43rd 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
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 夕 |
| +2 | 外 夗 夘 |
| +3 | 夙 多 夛 (=多) 名 |
| +5 | 夜 夝 (=晴 -> 日) |
| +7 | 夞KO 够SC/variant (=夠) 夠 |
| +8 | 梦SC/variant (=夢) |
| +9 | 夡 |
| +11 | 夢 夣 夤 夥 |
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, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.CS1 maint: location (link)
- 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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