Radical 95

玄
94 ⽝ ◄	95	► ⽟ 96
Pinyin :	xuán (= dark)
Zhuyin :	ㄒ ㄩ ㄢ
Hiragana :	げ ん gen
Kanji :	玄 gen (= dark)
Hangul :	검을
Sinocorean :	현 han
Codepoint :	U + 7384
Stroke sequence :

Radical 95 , meaning " dark ", is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with five strokes.

With 4 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon. Modern dictionaries such as the Xiandai Hanyu Cidian and the Xinhua dictionary do not list 玄 as a radical.

Mainly 玄 acts as a sound carrier in the compound symbol, for example in:

痃 (a disease name, with radical 104疒 = disease as a symbol),

炫 (= dazzle, with radical 86火 = fire as a carrier of meaning),

泫 (= dripping, with radical 85氵 = water as a carrier of meaning),

眩 (= blurred, with radical 109目 = eye as bearer of meaning),

舷 (ship side like: 右舷 youxian starboard, with radical 137舟 = ship as a bearer of meaning),

弦 (= bowstring, with radical 57弓 = bow as a carrier of meaning) and

畜 (to breed, with radical 102田 = field as a bearer of meaning).

Xuanzang (玄奘, Xuánzàng, W.-G. Hsüan-tsang; Japanese 玄奘 三 蔵, Genjō Sanzō) (* 603, † 664) was a Buddhist pilgrim monk from China who traveled the Silk Road and India from 629-645. Xuanzang left a travelogue under the title Description of the West Lands , which today gives a deeper insight into India at that time. His writings were kept in the Great Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an . He himself became the main character in the classic Chinese novel " The Pilgrimage to the West ".

Character combinations ruled by radical 95

Statue of Xuanzang at the Great Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an

Strokes	character
+ 00	玄
+ 04	玅
+ 05	玆
+ 06	率 玈

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 95 is coded under the code point number 12.126 (U + 2F5E).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 228 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 95  - Graphic representations of Radikal 95

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 95 on page 46