Radical 67

Radical 67 or radical script (文部) meaning "script" or "literature" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

文
Radical 67 (U+2F42)
文 (U+6587) "script, literature"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:wén
Bopomofo:ㄨㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:wen
Wade–Giles:wên2
Cantonese Yale:màhn, mahn
Jyutping:man4, man6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:bûn
Japanese Kana:ブン bun / モン mon (on'yomi)
ふみ fumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:문 mun
Names
Chinese name(s):(Top) 文字頭/文字头 wénzìtóu
文字旁 wénzìpáng
Japanese name(s):文/ぶん bun
文繞/ぶんにょう bunnyō
文旁/ふみづくり fymitsukuri
Hangul:글월 geurwol
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

文 is also the 93rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0文
+2齐SC (=齊 -> 齊) 刘SC (=劉 -> 刀)
+4斉JP (=齊 -> 齊)
+6斊 斋SC (=齋 -> 齊)
+7斍 (=覺 -> 見) 斎JP (=齋 -> 齊) 斏
+8斌 斐 斑
+9斒
+12斓SC (=斕)
+15斔
+17斕
+19斖

The Unihan Database classifies the Simplified Chinese character 齐 and Japanese shinjitai 斉 and 斎 under this radical. However, 齐 actually belongs to radical 齐 (齊) (Simplified Chinese characters radical #140, =Kangxi Radical 210) in mainland China's standard[1] and Simplified Chinese dictionaries; 斉 and 斎 usually falls under radical 斉 (齊) (or "齊 (斉)" depending on each dictionary's standard) in Japanese dictionaries.

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.

References

  1. GB13000.1字符集汉字部首归部规范 Specification for Identifying Indexing Components of GB 13000.1 Chinese Characters Set [sic]
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