Radical 48
Appearance
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工 | ||
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工 (U+5DE5) "work" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | gōng | |
Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥ | |
Wade–Giles: | kung1 | |
Cantonese Yale: | gūng | |
Jyutping: | gung1 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kong | |
Japanese Kana: | コウ kō (on'yomi) たくみ takumi (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 공 gong | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 工字旁 gōngzìpáng | |
Japanese name(s): | 工/こう kō 工/たくみ takumi 工偏/たくみへん takumihen エ/え e | |
Hangul: | 장인 jang'in | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 48 or radical work (工部) meaning "work" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
工 is also the 28th 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 |
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+0 | 工 |
+2 | 左 巧 巨 |
+3 | 巩 (also SC form of 鞏 -> Radical 177) 巪KO |
+4 | 巫 |
+6 | 差SC variant |
+7 | 差TC/JP/KO variant |
+9 | 巯SC (=巰) |
+10 | 巰 |
Sinogram
[edit]The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
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.
External links
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