Radical 12, meaning eight or all, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. "八" is two bent lines that signal divide. Eight is the single-digit number that can be divided by two the greatest number of times.
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 44 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
Characters with Radical 12
| strokes | characters |
|---|
| 0 strokes | 八 |
| 2 strokes | 公, 六, 兮, 兯, 六 |
| 3 strokes | 兰 |
| 4 strokes | 共, 兲, 关, 兴 |
| 5 strokes | 㒵, 㒶, 㒷, 兵 |
| 6 strokes | 其, 具, 典 |
| 7 strokes | 㒸, 兹, 养 |
| 8 strokes | 兺, 兼 |
| 9 strokes | 兽 |
| 11 strokes | 兾, 兿 |
| 14 strokes | 冀 |
| 16 strokes | 冁 |
| 18 strokes | 㒹 |
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: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
See also
- KangXi: page 126, character 26
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1450
- Dae Jaweon: page 274, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 241, character 3
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Great seal script character
Small seal script character
