Radical 110 or radical spear (矛部) meaning "spear" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
| 矛 | |
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Radical 110 (U+2F6D)
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| 矛 (U+77DB) "spear" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | máo |
| Bopomofo: | ㄇㄠˊ |
| Wade–Giles: | mao2 |
| Cantonese Yale: | maau4 |
| Jyutping: | maau4 |
| Japanese Kana: | ボウ bō / ム mu (on'yomi) ほこ hoko (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 모 mo |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 矛字旁 máozìpáng |
| Japanese name(s): | 矛/ほこ hoko 矛偏/ほこへん hokohen |
| Hangul: | 창 chang |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 65 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
矛 is also the 121st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
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edit- 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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