Radical 57
Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
| 弓 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 弓 (U+5F13) "bow" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gōng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | gong | |
| Wade–Giles: | kung1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gūng | |
| Jyutping: | gung1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kiong | |
| Japanese Kana: | キュウ kyū (on'yomi) ゆみ yumi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 궁 gung | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 弓字旁 gōngzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 弓/ゆみ yumi 弓偏/ゆみへん yumihen | |
| Hangul: | 활 hwal | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 165 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
弓 is also the 53rd 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 | 弓 |
| +1 | 弔 引 弖 |
| +2 | 弗 弘 |
| +3 | 弙 弚 弛 弜 |
| +4 | 弝 弞 弟 张SC (張) |
| +5 | 弡 弢 弣 弤 弥 弦 弨 弩 弪 |
| +6 | 弧 弫 弬 弭 弮 弯SC/弯JP (=彎) |
| +7 | 弰 弱 弲 弳SC (=弳) |
| +8 | 弴 張 弶 強 弸 弹SC (=彈) |
| +9 | 强 弻 弼 弽 弾 |
| +10 | 弿 彀 彁"ghost character" 彂 (=發 -> 癶) |
| +11 | 彃 彄 彅JP |
| +12 | 彆 彇 彈 彉 |
| +13 | 彊 (=強) 彋 |
| +14 | 彌 |
| +15 | 彍 |
| +19 | 彎 |
| +20 | 彏 |
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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