Radical 163

Radical 163

Chinese character radical


Radical 163 or radical city (邑部) meaning "city" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes. This radical character transforms into (counted as 3 strokes in Traditional Chinese, 2 strokes in Simplified Chinese) when used as a right component (not to be confused with on the left derived from ).

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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 350 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 159th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with (right) listed as its associated indexing components.

Evolution

Derived characters

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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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