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Radical 57 
Summary
Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
| 弓 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 弓 (U+5F13) "bow" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | gōng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | gong | |
| Wade–Giles: | kung1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gūng | |
| Jyutping: | gung1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kiong | |
| Japanese Kana: | キュウ kyū (on'yomi) ゆみ yumi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 궁 gung | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 弓字旁 gōngzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 弓/ゆみ yumi 弓偏/ゆみへん yumihen | |
| Hangul: | 활 hwal | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, 165 characters (out of 49,030) can be found under this radical.
弓 is also the 53rd 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 | 弓 |
| +1 | 弔 引 弖 |
| +2 | 弗 弘 |
| +3 | 弙 弚 弛 弜 |
| +4 | 弝 弞 弟 张SC (張) |
| +5 | 弡 弢 弣 弤 弥 弦 弨 弩 弪 |
| +6 | 弧 弫 弬 弭 弮 弯SC/弯JP (=彎) |
| +7 | 弰 弱 弲 弳SC (=弳) |
| +8 | 弴 張 弶 強 弸 弹SC (=彈) |
| +9 | 强 弻 弼 弽 弾 |
| +10 | 弿 彀 彁"ghost character" 彂 (=發 -> 癶) |
| +11 | 彃 彄 彅JP |
| +12 | 彆 彇 彈 彉 |
| +13 | 彊 (=強) 彋 |
| +14 | 彌 |
| +15 | 彍 |
| +19 | 彎 |
| +20 | 彏 |
Sinogram edit
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
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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radical 057.
- Unihan Database - U+5F13