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Radical 26

Radical 26

Chinese character radical


Radical 26 or radical seal (卩部) meaning "seal" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

Quick Facts 卩, Pronunciations ...

It usually transforms as when appearing at the bottom of a Chinese character.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 21st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

More information Strokes, Characters ...

In Unihan database, is indexed radical 26 + 1 stroke (3 strokes in total), with the extra stroke unspecified.[1] Traditionally, this character or component consists of only two strokes (𠃌乚).

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.
  • 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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