Radical 135

舌
134 ⾅ ◄	135	► ⾇ 136
Pinyin :	shé (= tongue)
Zhuyin :	ㄕ ㄜ ˊ
Hiragana :	し た shita
Kanji :	舌 偏 shitahen (= radical tongue)
Hangul :	혀 hyeo
Sinocorean :	설 seol (= tongue)
Codepoint :	U + 820C
Stroke sequence :

Radical 135 , meaning " tongue ", is one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with six strokes.

With 8 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "tongue" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 135th 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 177th position.

Oracle bones and seal script form show a mouth with a tongue protruding from it. 甜 (= sweet) contains the tongue 舌 and 甘 (= sweet), so it is a combined symbol. 舐 (= lick) and 舔 (= lick) naturally guide the tongue 舌 as a bearer of meaning, while 氏 and 忝 act as a sound carrier.

Later the character 舌 took on the function of a sound carrier. Such a replacement process created the characters 活 (= live), 刮 (= peel), 鸹 (in: 老鸹 = raven) and the like. a. the tongue 舌 as a component. Here, too, it only has a general function. In numerous shortened characters, 舌 took the place of more complicated components, so it has no special meaning there either: 乱 (= chaos), 适 (= suitable), 辞 (= expression). In the case of 舍 (= house), the seal form contains a component similar to im in the lower area, so that here too 舌 does not stand for tongue.

Character compounds ruled by radical 135

tongue

Strokes	character
+ 00	舌
+ 02	舍 舏
+ 04	舐
+ 05	舑
+ 06	舒
+ 08	舓 舔 舕
+ 09	舖 舗
+10	舘
+12	舙
+13	舚

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 135 is coded under the code point number 12.166 (U + 2F86).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 44 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 135  - Graphic representations of Radikal 135

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 135 on page 118