Radical 110

矛
109 ⽬ ◄	110	► ⽮ 111
Pinyin :	máo (= spear)
Zhuyin :	ㄇ ㄠ ˊ
Hiragana :	む の ほ こ mu no hoko
Kanji :	矛 hoko (= spear)
Hangul :	창
Sinocorean :	모 mu (= spear)
Codepoint :	U + 77DB
Stroke sequence :

Radical 110 , meaning “ spear , lance ”, is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with five strokes.

With 3 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "Spear" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 110. position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 155th position.

The original pictogram for this character shows a lance with a long shaft, from the way they even at the Terracotta Warriors of the Qin Shi Huang Di were found.

矛 (mao) often appears as a sound carrier in compound characters such as 茅 (mao = type of grass), 蟊 (mao = pest on grain roots), 袤 (mao = north-south extension of a country, but originally a long piece of clothing, hence the component 衣 yi = clothing).

As a bearer of meaning, 矛 (mao) places its characters in the meaning field of weapons, for example in 矜 (= lance style).

Character compounds ruled by radical 110

Japanese spears

Strokes	character
+ 00	矛
+ 04	矜
+ 05	矝
+ 07	矞 矟
+ 08	矠
+20	矡

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 110 is coded under the code point number 12.141 (U + 2F6D).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 132 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 110  - Graphic representations of Radikal 110

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 110 on page 104