赤 | ||
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赤 (U+8D64) "red, bare" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | chì | |
Bopomofo: | ㄔˋ | |
Wade–Giles: | ch'ih4 | |
Cantonese Yale: | chek3, chik3 | |
Jyutping: | cek3, cik3 | |
Japanese Kana: | セキ seki / シャク shaku (on'yomi) あか aka (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 적 jeok | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | 赤/あか aka 赤偏/あかへん akahen | |
Hangul: | 붉을 bulgeul | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 155 or radical red (赤部) meaning "red" or "bare" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
赤 is also the 151st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 赤 |
+4 | 赥 赦 赧 |
+6 | 赨 赩 赪SC (=赬) |
+7 | 赫 |
+9 | 赬 赭 赮 |
+10 | 赯 |
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.