Radical 21
| 匕 | |
|---|---|
| 匕 (U+5315) "spoon" | |
| Pronunciations | |
| Pinyin: | bǐ |
| Bopomofo: | ㄅㄧˇ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | bii |
| Wade–Giles: | pi3 |
| Cantonese Yale: | bei6 |
| Jyutping: | bei2 bei6 |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | pí |
| Japanese Kana: | ヒ hi (on'yomi) さじ saji (kun'yomi) |
| Sino-Korean: | 비 bi |
| Hán-Việt: | chủy |
| Names | |
| Japanese name(s): | 匕のヒ/さじのひ sajinohi |
| Hangul: | 비수 bisu |
| Stroke order animation | |
Radical 21 or radical spoon (匕部) meaning "spoon" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary , there are 19 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
匕 is also the 15th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
[edit ]| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 匕 Kangxi/SC/HK/JP/KO/匕 TW |
| +2 | 化 Kangxi/SC/化 JP/KO/HK/化 TW |
| +3 | 北 |
| +9 | 匘 匙 |
Variant forms
[edit ]匕 as a component of Chinese characters takes different forms in different printing typefaces or different Chinese characters. In the Kangxi Dictionary , current standard Simplified Chinese, Hong Kong Traditional Chinese, and Japanese, the second stroke of 匕 is a left-falling stroke. In Taiwan Traditional Chinese, the Standard Form of National Characters prescribes the second stroke of 匕 is horizontal, 匕 with a left-falling second stroke is also widely used.
The nuance of this character applies to both printing and handwriting forms.
| 2nd stroke left-falling | 2nd stroke horizontal | |
|---|---|---|
| 匕 | 匕 | |
| 化 | 化 | 化 |
| Kangxi Dict. Simp. Chinese |
Hong Kong Macau Japanese Korean |
Taiwan |
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.
