Radical 151

Summary

Radical 151 or radical bean (豆部) meaning "bean" is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals. It is one of 20 which are composed of 7 strokes.

← 150 Radical 151 (U+2F96) 152 →
(U+8C46) "bean"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:dòu
Bopomofo:ㄉㄡˋ
Wade–Giles:tou4
Cantonese Yale:dau2, dau6
Jyutping:dau2, dau6
Japanese Kana:トウ tō / ズ zu (on'yomi)
まめ mame (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:두 du
Names
Chinese name(s):豆字旁 dòuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):豆/まめ mame
(Left) 豆偏/まめへん mamehen
Hangul:콩 kong
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 68 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 152nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution edit

Derived characters edit

Strokes Characters
+0
+3 豇 豈
+4
+6 JP (=豐) 豋
+8 豌 豍 豎
+10
+11
+13 豑 (=秩 -> )
+18 豒 (=秩 -> )
+20 豓 (=豔)
+21

Sinogram edit

As an independent sinogram 豆 is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] Specifically it is a third grade kanji.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ 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.

Further reading 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.

External links edit

  • Unihan Database - U+8C46