Radical 73

曰
72 ⽇ ◄	73	► ⽉ 74
Pinyin :	yuē (= to speak)
Zhuyin :	ㄩ ㄝ
Hiragana :	え つ etsu
Kanji :	平日 hirabi (= flat sun)
Hangul :	가로
Sinocorean :	왈
Codepoint :	U + 66F0
Stroke sequence :

Radical 73 , meaning “to speak ”, is one of the 34 traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of four strokes.

With 15 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is relatively rare. In the Kangxi dictionary there were 37 characters that could be found under this radical.

This pictogram is the representation of a mouth in which the tongue moves. It is easy to confuse this radical with radical 72 , from which it only differs in that it is much broader.

Character combinations ruled by radical 73

Strokes	character
+ 00	曰
+ 01	曱
+ 02	曲 曳
+ 03	更 曵
+ 04	曶
+ 05	曷
+ 06	書 曺
+ 07	曹 曻 曼 曽
+ 08	曾 替 最 朁 朂
+ 09	會
+10	朄 朅
+12	朆
+17	朇

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 73 is coded under the code point number 12.104 (U + 2F48).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 72 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 73  - Graphic representations of Radikal 73

Wiktionary: 曰  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 73 on page 69