Radical 123

羊 ⺶ ⺷
122 ⽹ ◄	123	► ⽻ 124
Pinyin :	yáng (= sheep, goat)
Zhuyin :	ㄧ ㄤ ˊ
Hiragana :	ひ つ じ hitsuji
Kanji :	羊 偏 hitsujihen or 羊 冠 hitsujikanmuri (= radical goat)
Hangul :	양
Sinocorean :	양 ang (= goat)
Codepoint :	U + 7F8A
Stroke sequence :

Radical 123 , meaning “ sheep , goat ”, is one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with six strokes.

With 26 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are relatively few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "goat" will only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 123. 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 157th position.

The character developed from the image of a goat or a sheep from the front with their horns. Oracle bones and bronze script form depict the head of a sheep with two curved horns above. The two lines on today's symbol 羊 still remind of this.

Variants of the radical are the left-sided form in 着 (= touch) or 羚 (= antelope) and in the head position as in 美 (mei = beautiful) and 羔 (= lamb). The first of these variants is sometimes called 斜 尾 羊 (xieweiyang = wrytail sheep), the second 羊 字 头 (yangzitou = sheep's head) or 没 尾 羊 (meiweiyang = tailless sheep).

善 (= kind-hearted) contains 羊, which is closed at the bottom by a fourth horizontal line so that it looks like a radical of its own. The slanted tail variant as in 羌 (Qiang, a nationality name), 养 (= nourish), 差 (in: 差错 = error), 羞 (in: 羞耻 xiuchi = feeling of shame) or 着 (in: 着火 zhaohuo = catching fire) so often that older reference works often kept them separately.

The goat (未wèi ) or the sheep (羊yáng ) is considered good according to the Chinese calendar . The yin energy predominates in her .

In western books on Chinese astrology , one sometimes reads “sheep” instead of “goat”, which is the real meaning of the sign.

Domestic goat (羊)

Goat (山羊)

Sheep and goat years are:

13th February	1907 to 0February 1	1908 - fire
0February 1st	1919 to February 19	1920 - earth
February 17th	1931 to 0February 5	1932 - metal
0February 5th	1943 to January 24th	1944 - water
January 24th	1955 to February 11th	1956 - wood
0February 9	1967 to January 29th	1968 - fire
January 28th	1979 to February 15	1980 - earth
February 15th	1991 to 0February 3	1992 - metal
0February 1st	2003 to January 21	2004 - water
19th of February	2015 to 0February 7th	2016 - wood

Character combinations ruled by radical 123

Strokes	character
+ 00	羊
+ 01	羋
+ 02	羌
+ 03	羍 美 羏 羐 羑
+ 04	羒 羓 羔 羕 羖 羗 羘 羙
+ 05	羚 羛 羜 羝 羞 羟
+ 06	羠 羡 羢
+ 07	羣 群 羥 羦 羧 羨 義 羪
+ 08	羫
+ 09	羬 羭 羮 羯 羰
+10	羱 羲
+12	羳 羴 羵
+13	羶 羷 羸 羹
+14	羺
+15	羻 羼

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 123 is coded under the code point number 12.154 (U + 2F7A).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 156 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 127 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 123  - Graphic representations of Radikal 123

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of radical 123 on page 107