Radical 5

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← 4 Radical 5 (U+2F04) 6 →
(U+4E59) "second, fishing hook"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:一ˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:yii
Wade–Giles:i3
Cantonese Yale:yut
Jyutping:jyut3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:it
Japanese Kana:オツ otsu (on'yomi)
きのと kinoto /おと oto (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:을 eul
Names
Japanese name(s):乙 otsu
乙繞/おつにょう otsunyoū
釣り針/つりばり tsuribari (fishing hook)
Hangul:새 sae
Stroke order animation

Radical 5 or radical second (乙部), meaning "second", is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke. However, this radical is mainly used to categorize miscellaneous characters otherwise not belonging to any radical, mainly featuring a hook or fold, and 乙 is the character with the least amount of strokes.

In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system, 乙 represents the second Celestial stem (天干 tiāngān).

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In mainland China, along with other 14 associated indexing components, including , etc., are affiliated to a new radical (乛部), which is the 5th principal indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries.[1] Usually, only several out of the 15 variant components are listed under radical in dictionary indexes.

Evolution[edit]

Derived characters[edit]

Strokes Characters
+0 Component only
+1
+2 SC (= -> )
+3 KO KO
+4 KO
+5 KO KO KO KO KO
+6 (SC/JP, =亂) KO
+7 KO KO KO KO
+8 KO KO KO KO
+10 乿 JP (= -> )
+11 (=乾)
+12

In the Unihan Database, (Japanese simplified form of ) falls under Radical 5 + 10 strokes, while other variants of (including Simplified Chinese ) fall under Radical 213 ( "turtle"), causing an inconsistency. However, in most Japanese dictionaries, is treated as a variant of Radical 213 () and indexed Radical 213 + 0 strokes.

Sinogram[edit]

As an independent character it is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.[2] It is also used in the Chinese language.

It means "secondary" and is mainly used in compounds.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ GF 0011-2009 汉字部首表 (The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Component [sic])
  2. ^ "KANJI-Link". www.kanji-link.com. Retrieved 2023-06-02.

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.
  • Leyi, Li (1993). Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases. Beijing. ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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