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Radical 61

Radical 61

Chinese character radical

Radical 61 or radical heart (心部) meaning "heart" is one of 34 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 4 strokes.

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When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into 忄, which consists of three strokes. When appearing at the bottom, it sometimes transforms into ⺗.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,115 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

心 is also the 98th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 忄 and ⺗, are affiliated to the principal indexing component 心.

Evolution

Derived characters

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Sinogram

As a single radical the Chinese character means heart. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]


References

  1. [1]
    "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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

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