Radical 65
Radical 65 or radical branch (支部) meaning "branch" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 支 | ||
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| 支 (U+652F) "branch" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | zhī | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄓ | |
| Wade–Giles: | chih1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | jī | |
| Jyutping: | zi1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | chi | |
| Japanese Kana: | シ shi (on'yomi) ささ-える sasa-eru (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 지 ji | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 支字旁 zhīzìpáng 支字底 zhīzìdǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 支える/ささえる 支繞/しにょう shinyō 枝繞/えだにょう edanyō 十又/じゅうまた jūmata | |
| Hangul: | 지탱할 jitaenghal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
支 is also the 65th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
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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