Radical 146
襾 西 覀 | ||
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145 ⾐ ◄ | 146 | ► ⾒ 147 |
Pinyin : | yà or xī | |
Zhuyin : | ㄧ ㄚ ˋ or ㄒ ㄧ | |
Hiragana : | に し nishi | |
Kanji : | 西 nishi (= west) | |
Hangul : | 덮을 | |
Sinocorean : | 아 | |
Codepoint : | U + 897E 897F 8980 |
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Stroke sequence : |
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Radical 146 , meaning “cover” and “ west ”, is one of the 29 traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of six strokes.
With 9 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , the radical appears very rarely in the lexicon.
There were 24 cardinal points on the representations in ancient China; South was on top , and west, marked on the picture with 酉 yǒu (radical No. 164; 10th of the 12 branches of the earth; 10th animal in the Chinese zodiac (rooster)), right .
Character combinations are only created with the variant 覀, which is always on top and is written with six lines.
Character combinations ruled by radical 146
Strokes | character |
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+ | 0襾 西 覀
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+ | 3要
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+ | 5覂
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+ | 6覃 覄
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+ | 7覅
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+12 | 覆
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+13 | 覇 覈
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+17 | 覉
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+19 | 覊 |
In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 146 is coded under the code point number 12.177 (U + 2F91).
literature
- Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 130 .
- For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature
Web links
Commons : Radikal 146 - Graphic representations of Radikal 146
- Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 146 on page 113