Radical 16

几
15 ⼎ ◄	16	► ⼐ 17
Pinyin :	jī
Zhuyin :	ㄐ ㄧ
Hiragana :	つ く え tsukue
Kanji :	机 tsukue or 風 構kazegamae
Hangul :	안석 anseok
Sinocorean :	궤 gwe
Codepoint :	U + 51E0
Stroke sequence :

The Radical 16 meaning " table " is one of 23 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with two strokes.

With 8 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it has a very low frequency.

(Note: The radical table takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 16th position in modern. Abbreviation -Wörterbüchern may find a completely different place in. New Sino-German dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, is in 30th place.

The character 几 also occurs as a single character, for example in the word 茶几 (= tea table).

The radical character looks a little the Cyrillic characters Л "l" similar .

The Chinese abbreviation 几 (= almost, a few) actually has nothing to do with the radical 几, it was chosen completely arbitrarily as the shortened form for 幾 .

Character combinations ruled by radical 16

Strokes	character
+ 00	几
+ 01	凡 凢 凣
+ 02	凤
+ 03	凥 処 凧
+ 04	凨 凩 凪 凫
+ 05	凬
+ 06	凭 凮 凯
+ 07	巬
+ 09	凰
+10	凱 凲
+12	凳 凴

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 16 is coded under the code point number 12.047 (U + 2F0F).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 140 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 245 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 16  - Graphic representations of Radikal 16

Wiktionary: 几  - Explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 16 on page 12