Radical 166 or radical village (里部) meaning "village" or "li" (a traditional Chinese unit of distance) is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
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Radical 166 (U+2FA5)
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| 里 (U+91CC) "village, li (distance unit)" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | lǐ |
| Bopomofo: | ㄌㄧˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | li3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | lei5 |
| Jyutping: | lei5 |
| Japanese Kana: | リ ri (on'yomi) さと sato (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 리 ri |
| Hán-Việt: | lý, lí |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 里/さと sato (Left) 里偏/さとへん satohen |
| Hangul: | 마을 maeul |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 14 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
里 is also the 157th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In Simplified Chinese, 裏 or 裡 which mean "inside" is merged to 里.
Evolution
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Bronze 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 second 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.
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