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Radical 48 
Summary
Radical 48 or radical work (工部) meaning "work" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
| 工 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 工 (U+5DE5) "work" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gōng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥ | |
| Wade–Giles: | kung1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gūng | |
| Jyutping: | gung1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kong | |
| Japanese Kana: | コウ kō (on'yomi) たくみ takumi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 공 gong | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 工字旁 gōngzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 工/こう kō 工/たくみ takumi 工偏/たくみへん takumihen エ/え e | |
| Hangul: | 장인 jang'in | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
工 is also the 28th 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 | 工 |
| +2 | 左 巧 巨 |
| +3 | 巩 (also SC form of 鞏 -> Radical 177) 巪KO |
| +4 | 巫 |
| +6 | 差SC variant |
| +7 | 差TC/JP/KO variant |
| +9 | 巯SC (=巰) |
| +10 | 巰 |
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.[1] It is a second grade kanji[1]
References edit
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.
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 048.
- Unihan Database - U+5DE5