Radical 42
Radical 42 or radical small (小部) meaning "small" or "insignificant" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 小 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 小 (U+5C0F) "small, insignificant" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | xiǎo | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧㄠˇ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | sheau | |
| Wade–Giles: | hsiao3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | síu | |
| Jyutping: | siu2 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | siáu | |
| Japanese Kana: | ショウ shō (on'yomi) ちい-さい chii-sai (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 소 so | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Top) 小字頭/小字头 xiǎozìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 小/しょう shō (Top) 小頭/しょうがしら shōgashira (Top) 尚頭/なおがしら naogashira | |
| Hangul: | 작을 jageul | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 41 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
小 is also the 36th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Its inversed form ⺌ is the associated indexing component affiliated to the principal indexing component 小.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 小 |
| +1 | 尐 少 |
| +2 | 尒 (=爾 -> 爻) 尓 (=爾) 尔SC (=爾) 尕 |
| +3 | 尖 尗 尘SC (=塵 -> 土) 当SC/JP (=當 -> 田) |
| +5 | 尙Kangxi/KO (=尚) 尚 |
| +6 | 尛 尜 尝SC (=嘗/嚐 -> 口) |
| +9 | 尞 |
| +10 | 尟 尠 |
| +11 | 尡 |
Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo. 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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