Radical 24
Appearance
十 | ||
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十 (U+5341) "ten" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | shí | |
Bopomofo: | ㄕˊ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shyr | |
Wade–Giles: | shih2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | sahp | |
Jyutping: | sap6 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | cha̍p (col.) si̍p (lit.) | |
Japanese Kana: | ジュウ jū (on'yomi) と to / とお tō (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 십 sip | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | 十偏 jūhen | |
Hangul: | 열 yeol | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 24 or radical ten (十部) meaning ten, complete, or perfect, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
十 is also the 6th 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
十 is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now 針/针), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape.
Derived characters
[edit]Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 十 |
+1 | 卂 千 卄 |
+2 | 卅 卆JP nonstandard (=卒) 升 午 |
+3 | 卉 半 |
+4 | 卋 (=世 -> 一) 卌 卍 华SC (=華 -> 艸) 协SC (=協) 卐 毕SC (=畢 -> 田) |
+5 | |
+6 | 丧SC (=喪 -> 口) 卑 卒 卓 協 单SC (=單 -> 口) 卖SC (=賣 -> 貝) |
+7 | 南 |
+8 | 単 |
+9 | 卙 |
+10 | 博 |
+19 | 卛 颦SC (=顰 -> 頁) |
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.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
- KangXi: page 155, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
- Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9
See also
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