Radical 131

Chinese character radical
臣
← 130 Radical 131 (U+2F82) 132 →
臣 (U+81E3) "minister, official"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chén
Bopomofo:ㄔㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:chern
Wade–Giles:chʻên2
Cantonese Yale:sàhn
Jyutping:san4
Japanese Kana:シン shin / ジン jin (on'yomi)
おみ omi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:신 sin
Names
Japanese name(s):臣/しん shin
Hangul:신하 sinha
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Radical 131 or radical minister (臣部) meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

臣 is also the 125th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 臣
+2 臤 臥
+6 臦
+8 臧
+11 臨 臩

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Further reading

  • 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.
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.