Radical 155

赤
154 ⾙ ◄	155	► ⾛ 156
Pinyin :	chì (= red)
Zhuyin :	ㄔ ˋ
Hiragana :	あ か aka
Kanji :	赤 偏 akahen (= radical red)
Hangul :	붉을
Sinocorean :	적 chak (= red)
Codepoint :	U + 8D64
Stroke sequence :

Radical 155 , meaning " vermilion ", is one of 20 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with seven strokes.

With 6 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "red" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 155th 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 190th position.

The pictogram represents a person at the fire . The seal form consists of two components: above oben (da = large) and below 火 (huo = fire): large fire = red.

With the foot, the radical means “bare feet” and describes the medical assistants who help farmers in the countryside, the well-known “ barefoot doctors ”. "Red" with "child" means the "newborn", while "red dishes" means terracotta because the clay is red after it has been fired. So 赤 is a combined sign.

The radical 赤 creates the context in red as in 赧 (= blushing with shame), 赫 (he = conspicuous like red color), 赭 (= red-brown). In 赦 (= pardon) the right component (攵, the hand with the stick) is the bearer of meaning and 赤 of the sound.

Character combinations ruled by radical 155

vermilion

Strokes	character
+ 00	赤
+ 04	赥 赦
+ 05	赧
+ 06	赨 赩 赪
+ 07	赫
+ 09	赬 赭 赮
+10	赯

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 155 is coded under the code point number 12.186 (U + 2F9A).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 218 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 155  - Graphic representations of Radikal 155

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 155 on page 128