Radical 47

巛 巜 川
46 ⼭ ◄	47	► ⼯ 48
Pinyin :	chuān
Zhuyin :	ㄔ ㄨ ㄢ
Hiragana :	ま が り が わmagarigawa
Kanji :	三 本 川 sanbongawa
Hangul :	내
Sinocorean :	천
Codepoint :	U + 5DDB 5DDC 5DDD
Stroke sequence :

The radical 47 meaning "power", " River " is one of 31 traditional radicals of Chinese characters , consisting of three strokes.

In Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary character compounds rarely occur with this radical. Even in the Kangxi dictionary , which has 40,000 characters , only 26 characters can be found under this radical.

Spelling variants are 巜 ( similar to the zhuyin character ㄍ [ɡ̊]) and 川.

The water is represented by several streams that flow across the land. The three angular dashes (三 拐 儿 sanguir) indicate parallel snaking lines in their seal script. Today this symbol is written 川. Characters with this radical have something to do with water such as 邕 (= alternative name for the city of Nanning in Guangxi ). The lower part of this symbol, 邑 (= city) stands for the city wall, the upper part 巛 for water. The sign 邕 means a city surrounded by water.

In other signs, however, 巛 has nothing to do with water. In the symbol 巢 (= nest) the seal symbol represents a tree 木 on which sits a nest with three beaks protruding from it. These beaks later became the sign 巛.

Character combinations ruled by radical 47

A thousand miles along the Yangtze

Strokes	character
+ 00	巛 巜川
+ 03	州 巟 巠 巡
+ 08	巢 巣
+12	巤

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 47 is coded under the code point number 12.078 (U + 2F2E).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 101 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 54 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 47  - Graphic representations of Radikal 47

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

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 47 on page 47