Radical 118

竹 ⺮
117 ⽴ ◄	118	► ⽶ 119
Pinyin :	zhú (= bamboo)
Zhuyin :	ㄓ ㄨ ˊ
Hiragana :	た け take
Kanji :	竹 冠 takekanmuri (radical bamboo)
Hangul :	대
Sinocorean :	죽
Codepoint :	U + 7AF9 2EAE
Stroke sequence :

Leaves of bamboo

Radical 118 , meaning “ bamboo ”, is one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with six strokes.

With 152 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is very common. In the Kangxi dictionary there were also a lot of characters with 953 characters that could be found under this radical .

The radical bamboo only occupies the 118th position in the long - character list of traditional radicals , which consists of 214 radicals. 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 178th.

etymology

The bamboo pictogram shows two bamboo leaves hanging down, as shown particularly clearly in the old seal font .

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  Bronze font

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  Great seal script

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  Small seal script

use

竹 can act as a sound carrier in the sign like in the family name 竺 (zhu), 筑 (zhu = an old musical instrument) or 笃 (duk = serious).

Usually, however, 竹 is a bearer of meaning and places its symbols in the meaning field of bamboo: 竿 (gun = rod), 筐 (kuang = basket made of bamboo), 笛 (di = flute), 管 (guan = tube), 筷子 (kuàizi = chopsticks) , 箸 (jyu = chopsticks). 简 (jian simple, uncomplicated) originally meant a writing board made from bamboo. 笨 (ben = stupid) was originally a name for the white inside a bamboo tube, 等 (deng = degree, rank) meant the bamboo tablets 竹简 (jian = to order). The 竹 字 头 (zhuzitou = bamboo head) carries meaning everywhere. 籍 (ji = book, work) and 薄 (bo = thin) wear the bamboo head because the historical Chinese liked to use the bamboo as a carrier for their characters. Here, too, 竹 is the bearer of meaning. This plant played a role as an aid in arithmetic, so that it also occurs in 算 (suan = to calculate). The bamboo has nothing to do with the process 篡 (= usurp, usurp). Rather, the sign consists of the component ㄙ (= 私 si = private, personal) and 算 as a sound carrier.

Character connections are only created with the variant ⺮ (always above).

Character combinations ruled by radical 118

Strokes	character
+ 00	竹 ⺮
+ 02	竺 竻
+ 03	竼 竽 竾 竿 笀 笁 笂 笃
+ 04	笄 笅 笆 笇 笈 笉 笊 笋 笌 笍 笎 笏 笐 笑 笒 笓 笔 笕
+ 05	笖 笗 笘 笙 笚 笛 笜 笝 笞 笟 笠 笡 笢 笣 笤 笥 符 笧 笨 笩 笪 笫 第 笭 笮 笮 笯 笰 笱 笲 笳 笴 笴 笵 笶 笷 笸 笹 笺 笻 笼 笽 笾
+ 06	笿 筀 筁 筂 筃 筄 筅 筆 筇 筈 等 筊 筋 筌 筍 筎 筏 筐 筑 筒 筓 答 筕 策 策 筗 筘 筙 筚 筛 筜 筝
+ 07	筞 筟 筠 筡 筢 筣 筤 筥 筦 筧 筨 筩 筪 筫 筬 筭 筮 筯 筰 筱 筲 筳 筴 筵 筶 筶筷筸 筹 筺 筻 筼 筽 签 筿 简 節
+ 08	箁 箂 箃 箄 箅 箆 箇 箈 箉 箊 箋 箌 箍 箎 箏 箐 箑 箒 箓 箔 箕 箖 算 箘 箙 箙 箚 箛 箜 箝 箞 箟 箠 箠 管 箢 箣 箤 箥 箦 箧 箨 箩箸
+ 09	箪 箫 箬 箭 箮 箯 箰 箱 箲 箳 箴 箵 箶 箷 箹 箺 箻 箼 箽 箾 箿 篁 篂 篃 範 範 篅 篆 篇 篈 篊 篋 篌 篍 篎 篏 篐 篑 篒 篓
+10	築 篔 篕 篖 篗 篘 篙 篚 篛 篜 篝 篞 篟 篠 篡 篢 篣 篤 篥 篦 篧 篨 篩 篪 篪 篫 篬 篭 篮 篯 簑 簒
+11	篰 篱 篲 篳 篴 篵 篶 篷 篸 篹 篺 篻 篼 篽 篾 篿 簀 簁 簂 簃 簄 簄 簆 簇 簇 簈 簉 簊 簋 簌 簍 簎 簏 簐 簓 簔 簕 簖 簗
+12	簘 簙 簚 簛 簜 簝 簞 簟 簠 簡 簢 簣 簤 簥 簦 簧 簨 簩 簪 簫 簬 簭 簮 簯 簰 簱 簲
+13	簳 簴 簵 簶 簷 簸 簹 簺 簻 簼 簽 簾 簿 籀 籁 籂
+14	籃 籄 籅 籆 籇 籈 籉 籊 籋 籌 籍 籎 籏
+15	籐 籑 籒 籓 籔 籕 籖
+16	籗 籘 籙 籚 籛 籜 籝 籞 籟 籠 籡
+17	籢 籣 籤 籥 籦 籧 籨
+18	籩 籪
+19	籫 籬 籭 籮
+20	籯 籰
+24	籱
+26	籲

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 118 is coded under the code point number 12.149 (U + 2F75).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 196 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 231 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 118  - Graphic representations of Radikal 118

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 118 on page 119