Radical_201 Knowpia

Radical 201 or radical yellow (黃部) meaning "yellow" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

The xin zixing form of this radical, 黄, is the 192nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

黄 is also the Japanese simplified form (shinjitai) of this radical character.

Evolution edit

This radical has different forms in different languages or characters.

Kangxi Dict. Japanese hyōgai Korean Trad. Chinese (Hong Kong)	Trad. Chinese (Taiwan)	Simp. Chinese Japanese jōyō
黃	黃	黄

While Hong Kong and Taiwan have selected different forms as their standards, the two traditional forms are often interchangeable.

In Japanese, the simplified (shinjitai) form 黄 is used in jōyō kanji (e.g. 横), while the traditional form 黃 is used in hyōgai kanji (e.g. 曠).

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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.