Radical 180 or radical sound (音部) meaning "sound" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
| 音 | |
|---|---|
Radical 180 (U+2FB3)
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| 音 (U+97F3) "sound" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | yīn |
| Bopomofo: | ㄧㄣ |
| Wade–Giles: | yin1 |
| Cantonese Yale: | yam1 |
| Jyutping: | jam1 |
| Japanese Kana: | オン on / イン in (on'yomi) おと oto / ね ne (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 음 eum |
| Hán-Việt: | âm, ậm, ơm |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 音/おと oto 音偏/おとへん otohen |
| Hangul: | 소리 sori |
| Stroke order animation | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 43 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
音 is also the 186th 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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editThe radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji.[1]
References
edit- 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Literature
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.
External links
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