Radical 98

瓦
97 ⽠ ◄	98	► ⽢ 99
Pinyin :	wǎ (= brick)
Zhuyin :	ㄨ ㄚ
Hiragana :	か わ ら kawara
Kanji :	瓦 kawara (= brick)
Hangul :	기와
Sinocorean :	와 wa
Codepoint :	U + 74E6
Stroke sequence :

Radical 98 , which means “ roof tiles ”, is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with five strokes.

With 21 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are relatively few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "brick" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 98th position. In modern abbreviation dictionaries it can be found in a completely different place. In the new Chinese-German dictionary from the People's Republic of China, however, it happens to also be in 98th position.

瓦 belongs to the symbol category of the pictograms that are supposed to show an image of the object. If it appears in composite signs as a bearer of meaning, it places its signs in the meaning field porcelain or ceramics, for example in 瓮 (weng = earthenware bucket), 瓶 (ping = bottle), 瓯 (ou = bowl), 甄 (= sharply differentiate , originally the name for a ceramic manufacturer). 瓦 (wa) only rarely functions as a sound carrier, for example in the nationality name 佤 (Wa) or in the onomatopoeic transmission of the power unit watt (瓦特).

Character combinations ruled by radical 98

Roof tiles at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing

Strokes	character
+ 00	瓦
+ 02	瓧
+ 03	瓨 瓩
+ 04	瓪 瓫 瓬 瓭 瓮 瓯 瓰 瓱 瓲
+ 05	瓳 瓴 瓵
+ 06	瓶 瓷 瓸
+ 07	瓹 瓺 瓻 瓼
+ 08	瓽 瓾 瓿 甀 甁
+ 09	甂 甃 甄 甅 甆
+10	甇 甈 甉
+11	甊 甋 甌 甍 甎 甏 甐 甑
+12	甒
+13	甓 甔 甕
+14	甖
+16	甗

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 98 is coded under the code point number 12.129 (U + 2F61).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 108 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 98  - Graphic representations of Radikal 98

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 98 on page 65