Radical 173

雨
172 ⾫ ◄	173	► ⾭ 174
Pinyin :	yǔ (= rain)
Zhuyin :	ㄩ ˇ
Hiragana :	あ め ame
Kanji :	雨 冠 amekanmuri (= radical rain)
Hangul :	비
Sinocorean :	우 u
Codepoint :	U + 96E8
Stroke sequence :

Radical 173 , meaning " rain ", is one of nine of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with eight strokes.

With 45 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are relatively many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

Radical rain increases only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 173. 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 204th position.

The character developed from a pictogram that shows four drops of water falling from a cloud that hangs in the sky like a container. As a bearer of meaning, 雨 places its symbols in the meaning field of rain and other meteorological phenomena such as 雪 (= snow), 雷 (= thunder, trigram ), 雲 (= clouds), 雾 (= fog) and 霜 (= frost). 零 (= zero) originally denoted slowly falling rain, hence 雨 in the head. 霍 (= suddenly) was initially written below with two birds 隹 隹. Birds fly up when it rains, and this fluttering sound should reproduce 霍霍 (huohuo).

The meaning carrier rain 雨 in 霍 results from this connection. 霸 (= tyrant) originally referred to the first two or three days of the month in the lunar calendar when the moon can hardly be seen. The pronunciation of 霸 (ba) was p. The sign therefore consists of the moon 月 (yu) and the pronounced sound carrier components 雨 and 革 (= leather). Xu Shen explained this in his Shuowen Jiezi : Rain soaks the leather. This means that the rain 雨 in the sign 霸 (ba = tyrant) does not appear as such, but only as part of the original sound carrier component made up of 雨 and 革, which is no longer used today.

Character combinations ruled by radical 173

Strokes	character
+ 00	雨
+ 03	雩雪雫
+ 04	雬 雭 雮 雰 雱雲雯 靊
+ 05	雳 雴 零 雷 雸 雹 雺 電 雵 雼 雽
+ 06	雾 需 雿
+ 07	霁 霂 霄 霅 霆 震 霈 霉 霊
+ 08	霃 霋 霍 霎 霏 霐 霑 霒 霓 霔 霕 霖 霗 霘
+ 09	霙 霌 霚 霜 霝 霞 霟 霠 霡 霢 霣
+10	霤 霛
+11	霥 霧 霦 霨 霪 霩 霫 霬
+12	霭 霮 霰 霯 霳 霱
+13	露 霴 霵 霶 霸 霹 霷
+14	霻 霺 霽 霾 霼 霿
+15	靀
+16	靂 靃 靄 靅 靆 靇 靈
+17	靉
+18	靁
+19	靋 靌
+31	靐

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 173 is coded under the code point number 12.204 (U + 2FAC).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 189 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 168 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 173  - Graphic representations of Radikal 173

Wiktionary: 雨  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 173 on page 138