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Radical 42

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← 41 Radical 42 (U+2F29) 43 →
(U+5C0F) "small, insignificant"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:xiǎo
Bopomofo:ㄒㄧㄠˇ
Wade–Giles:hsiao3
Cantonese Yale:siu2
Jyutping:siu2
Japanese Kana:shou (seu), chiisai
ショウ (セウ), ちいさい
Sino-Korean:소 so
Names
Japanese name(s):小 shou
Hangul:작을 jageul
Stroke order animation

Radical 42 meaning "small" or "insignificant" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 41 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 42

seal script character
strokes character
without additional strokes
1 additional stroke 尐 少
2 additional strokes 尒 尓 尔 尕
3 additional strokes 尖 尗 尘 当
5 additional strokes 尙 尚
6 additional strokes 尛 尜 尝
9 additional strokes
10 additional strokes 尟 尠
11 additional strokes

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)