Kangxi radical

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List of Unicode radicals: Kangxi radicals and supplement.

Kangxi radicals are a list of 214 of Chinese characters, used originally in the 1615 Zihui and adopted by the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary, in order of the number of strokes along with some examples of characters containing them. This list has become such a common standard that sometimes radicals are referred to by number alone. A reference to "radical 61", for example, without additional context, means .

See Chinese characters and Chinese character radicals for more information on how these radicals are used in written Chinese.

The 214 Kangxi radicals are encoded in the Unicode U+2F00–2FDF range.

Contents

Kangxi dictionary [edit]

The Kangxi dictionary lists a total of 47,035 characters divided among the 214 radicals. There are seven radicals which form more than 1,000 characters each:

The lowest number of characters derived from any radical is five (Radical 138 ).

Table of radicals [edit]

Unicode [edit]

Kangxi Radicals
Range U+2F00..U+2FDF
(224 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Han
Symbol sets CJK Radical
Assigned 214 code points
Unused 10 reserved code points
Source standard(s) CNS 11643-1992
Unicode version history
3.0 214 (+214)

Note: "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. 

These are specific codepoints for the radicals as distinct from the characters consisting of the unaugmented radicals. Thus U+2F00 ⼀ represents the radical no. 1 while U+4E00 一 represents the character meaning "one". Additional radicals are found in the CJK Radicals Supplement range (2E80–2EFF). Many Kangxi Radicals are duplicates of regular CJK ideographs.

Kangxi Radicals[1]
Unicode.org chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+2F0x
U+2F1x
U+2F2x
U+2F3x ⼿
U+2F4x
U+2F5x
U+2F6x
U+2F7x ⽿
U+2F8x
U+2F9x
U+2FAx
U+2FBx ⾿
U+2FCx
U+2FDx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 6.1

See also [edit]

External links [edit]

Sources [edit]

  • An Analysis of the Two Chinese Radical Systems, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 13, 2, 95–109, May 78

References [edit]