Radical 42
Appearance
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小 (U+5C0F) "small, insignificant" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | xiǎo | |
Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧㄠˇ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | sheau | |
Wade–Giles: | hsiao3 | |
Cantonese Yale: | síu | |
Jyutping: | siu2 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | siáu | |
Japanese Kana: | shō (sē), chiisai ショー (セー), 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
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Great seal script character
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Small seal script character
strokes | character |
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without additional strokes | 小 |
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 | 尞 |
10 additional strokes | 尟 尠 |
11 additional strokes | 尡 |
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.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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External links
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