Radical 168

長 镸 长
167 ⾦ ◄	168	► ⾨ 169
Pinyin :	cháng (= long)
Zhuyin :	ㄔ ㄤ ˊ
Hiragana :	な が い nagai
Kanji :	長 nagai
Hangul :	긴
Sinocorean :	장
Codepoint :	U + 9577 9578 957F
Stroke sequence :

Radical 168 , meaning "long", is one of nine traditional radicals in the Chinese script with eight strokes.

It is extremely rare with a single combination of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary . In the Kangxi dictionary, however, 55 characters were still to be found under this radical.

The modern abbreviation 长 in the People's Republic of China reduces the exit sign to its essential elements and allows its exit to be recognized. In an older spelling variant 镸, only the "foot" of the character is changed; the character connections are only created with this variant.

In the pictogram, the hair is so long that it has to be tied. Later a hairpin is stuck into the character. This is supposed to represent an adult. The hair is a sign of aging. The oracle sign shows a figure with wild hair who is apparently walking on a stick. As a single sign, it means growing, being older.

Today the sign mostly functions as a sound carrier like in 怅 (= to be disappointed), 伥 (= to perform henchman services), 张 (= open, to tighten), 帐 (= tent, canopy) or 胀 (= to expand).

Character combinations ruled by radical 168

Strokes	character
+ 00	長 镸 长
+ 03	䦇 镹
+ 04	镺
+ 05	䣱 䦈 䦉 镻
+ 06	䦊
+ 08	镼
+11	䦋
+12	镽
+14	镾

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 168 is coded under the code point number 12.199 (U + 2FA7).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 245 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 168  - Graphic representations of Radikal 168

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 168 on pages 78 and 140