Radical 42

Radical 42 (U+2F29)
(U+5C0F) "small, insignificant"
Pinyin: xiǎo
Bopomofo: ㄒㄧㄠˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheau
Wade–Giles: hsiao3
Cantonese Yale: síu
Jyutping: siu2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáu
Kana: shō (sē), chiisai
ショー (セー), ちいさい
Kanji: 小 shou
Hangul: 작을 jageul
Sino-Korean: 소 so
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Radical 42 meaning "small" or "insignificant" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 41 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 42

strokescharacter
without additional strokes
1 additional stroke尐 少
2 additional strokes尒 尓 尔 尕
3 additional strokes尖 尗 尘 当
5 additional strokes尙 尚
6 additional strokes尛 尜 尝
9 additional strokes
10 additional strokes尟 尠
11 additional strokes

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.
  • 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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