Radical 12

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← 11 Radical 12 (U+2F0B) 13 →
(U+516B) "eight"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄅㄚ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:ba
Wade–Giles:pa1
Cantonese Yale:baat
Jyutping:baat3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:pat
Japanese Kana:はちがしら hachigashira
Sino-Korean:팔 pal
Names
Japanese name(s):八頭 hachigashira
Hangul:여덟 yeodeol
Stroke order animation

Radical 12, meaning eight or all, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. "八" is two bent lines that signal divide. Eight is the single-digit number that can be divided by two the greatest number of times.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 44 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Descendants

Characters with Radical 12

strokes characters
0 strokes
2 strokes , , ,
3 strokes
4 strokes , , ,
5 strokes , , ,
6 strokes , ,
7 strokes , ,
8 strokes ,
9 strokes
11 strokes ,
14 strokes
16 strokes
18 strokes

Literature

  • 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

External links

See also

  • KangXi: page 126, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1450
  • Dae Jaweon: page 274, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 241, character 3