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]
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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 | ||
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.
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 生 |
+4 | 甠 |
+5 | 甡 |
+6 | 產 産 |
+7 | 甤 甥 甦 |
+9 | 甧 |
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.