Radical 100

生
99 ⽢ ◄	100	► ⽤ 101
Pinyin :	shēng (= life)
Zhuyin :	ㄕ ㄥ
Hiragana :	う ま れ る umareru
Kanji :	生 umareru (= life)
Hangul :	날
Sinocorean :	생 (= life)
Codepoint :	U + 751F
Stroke sequence :

Radical 100 , meaning “ life ”, is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with five 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 Xiandai Hanyu Cidian and the Xinhua dictionary do not list 生 as a radical, it is found there under its first line, the small uppermost horizontal line.

The seal script shape shows a tree growing on earth. In the compound symbol, 生 acts primarily as a sound carrier as in

甥 (= nephew),

笙 (= the wind instrument Sheng ),

牲 (= pet),

胜 (= victory),

性 (= character) and

旌 (jing = banner).

Character compounds ruled by the radical 100

Strokes	character
+ 00	生
+ 04	甠
+ 05	甡
+ 06	產 産
+ 07	甤 甥 甦
+ 09	甧

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 100 is coded under the code point number 12.131 (U + 2F63).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 52 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 183 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 100  - Graphic representations of Radikal 100

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 100 on page 100