Radical 12
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.
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八 (U+516B) "eight" | ||
Pinyin: | bā | |
Bopomofo: | ㄅㄚ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | ba | |
Wade–Giles: | pa1 | |
Cantonese Yale: | baat | |
Jyutping: | baat3 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | pat | |
Kana: | はちがしら hachigashira | |
Kanji: | 八頭 hachigashira | |
Hangul: | 여덟 yeodeol | |
Sino-Korean: | 팔 pal | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 44 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
Characters with Radical 12
- Oracle bone script character
- Bronze script character
- Great seal script character
- Small seal script character
strokes | characters |
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0 strokes | 八 |
2 strokes | 公, 六, 兮, 兯 |
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
External links
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
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