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Radical 100 
Summary
Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.[1]
| 生 | ||
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| 生 (U+751F) "life" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shēng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄥ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | sheng | |
| Wade–Giles: | shêng1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sāang | |
| Jyutping: | saang1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | セイ sei / ショウ shō (on'yomi) い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 생 saeng | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | いきる ikiru うまれる umareru せい sei しょう shō | |
| Hangul: | 날 nal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
生 is also the 109th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution edit
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters edit
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 生 |
| +4 | 甠 |
| +5 | 甡 |
| +6 | 產 産 |
| +7 | 甤 甥 甦 |
| +9 | 甧 |
Sinogram edit
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[2] It is a first grade kanji.[2]
The character alone is present in the phrase worship of the living.
References edit
- ^ "Unihan data for Unihan data for U+751F". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ^ a b "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.
- 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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