Summary
Radical 91 or radical slice (片部) meaning "slice" or "film" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 片 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 片 (U+7247) "slice" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | piàn | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄆㄧㄢˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | p'ien4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | pin | |
| Jyutping: | pin3 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | phiàn | |
| Japanese Kana: | ヘン hen (on'yomi) かた kata (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 편 pyeon | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 片字旁 piànzìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 片/かた kata 片偏/かたへん katahen | |
| Hangul: | 조각 jogak | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 77 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
片 is also the 84th 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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Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters edit
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 片 |
| +4 | 版 |
| +5 | 牉 牊 |
| +8 | 牋 牌 牍SC (=牘) |
| +9 | 牎 牏 牐 牑 牒 |
| +10 | 牓 牔 |
| +11 | 牕 牖 牗 |
| +15 | 牘 |
Variant forms edit
This radical character takes different forms in Taiwan and in other regions. In Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters, the second (vertical) stroke and the third (horizontal) stroke share the same ending point, while in other standards, the second stroke ends at the middle of the third stroke.
| Chinese (Mainland China) |
Chinese (Taiwan) |
Japanese |
|---|---|---|
| 片 | 片 | 片 |
| 版 | 版 | 版 |
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 fifth 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
- Unihan Database - U+7247