Radical 173
| 雨 | |
|---|---|
Radical 173 (U+2FAC)
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| 雨 (U+96E8) "rain" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | yǔ |
| Bopomofo: | ㄩˇ |
| Wade–Giles: | yü3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | yu5 |
| Jyutping: | jyu5, jyu6 |
| Japanese Kana: | ウ u (on'yomi) あめ ame (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 우 u |
| Hán-Việt: | vũ |
| Names | |
| Chinese name(s): | 雨字頭/雨字头 yǔzìtóu |
| Japanese name(s): | 雨冠/あめかんむり amekanmuri[1] |
| Hangul: | 비 bi |
| Stroke order animation | |
Radical 173 or radical rain (雨部) which means "rain" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into ⻗ when used as an upper component.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
雨 is also the 170th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the component form ⻗ listed as its associated indexing component.
Evolution
[edit]- Western Zhou Bronze script
- Warring States period bronze script
- Qin slip script
- Shuowen ancient script
- Large seal script character
- Small seal script character
Derived characters
[edit]| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 雨 |
| +3 | 雩 雪 雫 |
| +4 | 雬 雭 雮 雯 雰 雱 雲 雳SC (=靂) |
| +5 | 雴 雵 零 雷 雸 雹 雺 電 雼 雽 雾SC (=霧) |
| +6 | 雿 需 霁SC (=霽) |
| +7 | 霂 霃 霄 霅 霆 震 霈 霉SC (also SC form of 黴 -> 黑) 霊JP (=靈) |
| +8 | 霋 霌 霍 霎 霏 霐 霑 霒 (=𩃬) 霓 霔 霕 霖 霗 (=零) |
| +9 | 霘 霙 霚 (=霧) 霛 (=靈) 霜 霝 霞 霟 霠 |
| +10 | 霡SC (=霢) 霢 霣 霤 霥 |
| +11 | 霦 霧 霨 霩 霪 霫 霬 霭SC (=靄) |
| +12 | 霮 霯 霰 霱 露 霳 霴 |
| +13 | 霵 霶 霷 霸 霹 霺 (=溦 -> 水) 霻 |
| +14 | 霼 霽 霾 霿 靀 (=濛 -> 水) |
| +15 | 靁 (=雷) |
| +16 | 靂 靃 靄 靅 靆 靇 靈 |
| +17 | 靉 |
| +18 | 靊 |
| +19 | 靋 靌 (=寶 -> 宀) 靍 (=鶴 -> 鳥) 靎 |
| +21 | 靏 |
| +31 | 靐 |
Variant forms
[edit]This radical is printed and written differently in modern Traditional Chinese than in other languages. In Chinese as used in Mainland China (whether Simplified or Traditional) and Japanese, the four dots in the character are almost identical, while in modern standard Traditional Chinese as used outside the mainland the four dots point inwards to the center of the character, despite the former form is also widely used in Traditional Chinese publications.
| Japanese | Mainland China | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
|---|---|---|
| 雨 雲 | 雨 雲 | 雨 雲 |
- Handwritten forms
- Independent character as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese
- Independent character as used in Traditional Chinese
- Component form as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese
- Component form as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese (alternative)
- Component form as used in Traditional Chinese
Hanzi
[edit]This character is a first grade kyōiku kanji.
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.
External links
[edit]- ↑ "Kanji Box - Radicals list with names". Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-07.