Radical 100
生 | ||
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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 |
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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 |
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+ | 0生
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+ | 4甠
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+ | 5甡
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+ | 6產 産
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+ | 7甤 甥 甦
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+ | 9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