Radical 125
Appearance
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老 | ||
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老 (U+8001) "old" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | lǎo | |
Bopomofo: | ㄌㄠˇ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | lao | |
Wade–Giles: | lao3 | |
Cantonese Yale: | lóuh | |
Jyutping: | lou5 | |
Japanese Kana: | ロウ rou (on'yomi) おいる oiru ふける fukeru (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 로 ro | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 老字頭/老字头 lǎozìtóu | |
Japanese name(s): | 老/おい oi | |
Hangul: | 늙을 neulgeul | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 125 or radical old (老部) meaning "old" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
老 is also the 123rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 耂 being its associated indexing component.
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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−2 | 耂 |
+0 | 老 考 |
+4 | 耄 者 耆 |
+5 | 耇 耈 (=耇) 耉 (=耇) |
+6 | 耊 (=耋) 耋 |
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 fourth 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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