Radical 159

Summary

Radical 159 or radical cart (車部) meaning "cart" or "car" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

← 158 Radical 159 (U+2F9E) 160 →
(U+8ECA) "cart, car"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chē
Bopomofo:ㄔㄜ
Wade–Giles:ch'e1
Cantonese Yale:che1, geui1
Jyutping:ce1, geoi1
Japanese Kana:シャ sha (on'yomi)
くるま kuruma (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:거 geo
Hán-Việt:xa, xe, xế
Names
Chinese name(s):(Left) 車字旁/车字旁 chēzìpáng
(Bottom) 車字底/车字底 chēzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):車/くるま kuruma
車偏/くるまへん kurumahen
Hangul:수레 sure
Stroke order animation
Stroke order of the simplified form
Stroke order of the simplified left component form

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 361 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.[1]

, the simplified form of , is the 68th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form is listed as its associated indexing components. is derived from the cursive form of .

Evolution edit

Derived characters edit

Strokes Characters (車) Characters (车)
+0 SC (=車)
+1 SC (=軋)
+2 軌 軍 轨SC (=軌)
+3 軎 (=轊) 軏 軐 軑 軒 軓 軔 軕 SC (=軒) 轪SC (=軑) 轫SC (=軔)
+4 軖 軗 軘 軙 軚 軛 軜 軝 軞 軟 軠 軡 転JP (=轉) 軣JP nonstandard (=轟) SC (=轉) 轭SC (=軛) 轮SC (=輪) 软SC (=軟) 轰SC (=轟)
+5 軤 軥 軦 軧 軨 軩 軪 軫 軬 軮 軯 軰 軱 軲 軳 軴 軵 軶 (=軛) 軷 軸 軹 軺 軻 軼 軽JP (=輕; also variant form of 輊) SC (=軲) 轲SC (=軻) 轳SC (=轤) 轴SC (=軸) 轵SC (=軹) 轶SC (=軼) 轷SC (=軤) 轸SC (=軫) 轹SC (=轢) 轺SC (=軺) 轻SC (=輕)
+6 軭 軾 軿 輀 輁 輂 較 輄 輅 輆 輇 輈 載 輊 輋 輌JP (=輛) SC (=軾) 载SC (=載) 轾SC (=輊) 轿SC (=轎) 辀SC (=輈) 辁SC (=輇) 辂SC (=輅) 较SC (=較)
+7 輍 輎 輏 輐 輑 輒 輓 輔 輕 SC (=輒) 辅SC (=輔) 辆SC (=輛)
+8 輖 輗 輘 輙 (=輒) 輚 輛 輜 輝 輞 輟 輠 輡 輢 輣 輤 輥 輦 輧 輨 輩 輪 輫 輬 SC (=輦) 辈SC (=輩) 辉SC (=輝) 辊SC (=輥) 辋SC (=輞) 辌SC (=輬) 辍SC (=輟) 辎SC (=輜)
+9 輭 (=軟) 輮 輯 輰 輱 輲 輳 輴 輵 輶 輷 輸 輹 輺 (=輜) 輻 輼HK/GB TC (=轀) SC (=輳) 辐SC (=輻) 辑SC (=輯) 辒SC (=轀) 输SC (=輸) 辔SC (=轡)
+10 輽 (=軬) 輾 輿 轀 轁 轂 轃 轄 轅 SC (=轅) 辖SC (=轄) 辗SC (=輾)
+11 轆 轇 轈 轉 轊 轋 轌 SC (=轆)
+12 轍 轎 轏 轐 轑 轒 轓 轔 SC (=轍) 辚SC (=轔)
+13 轕 轖 轗 轘 轙 轚
+14 轛 轜 轝 轞 轟
+15 轠 轡 轢
+16 轣 轤
+20

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]


References edit

  1. ^ "Unihan data for U+8ECA". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
  2. ^ 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.