Radical 154

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貝 贝
153 ⾘ ◄ 154 ► ⾚ 155
Pinyin : bèi (= cowrie snail)
Zhuyin : ㄅ ㄟ ˋ
Hiragana : か い kai
Kanji : 貝 偏 kaihen (= radical
cowrie snail)
Hangul : 조개
Sinocorean : 패 pae
Codepoint : U + 8C9D 8D1D
Stroke sequence : 貝 贝

Radical 154 with the meaning " cowrie shell " (colloquially also called "cowrie shell ") is one of 20 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with seven strokes.

With 86 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "Kauri" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 154th 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 106th position as the abbreviation (贝).

Cowboy money

In prehistoric China were Kaurischneckenhäuser as money used ( cowrie money ). During the Shang dynasty , bronze money came into circulation for the first time, which was still minted in the form of snail shells. It is therefore understandable that cowrie shells symbolize wealth. The pictogram traces the tanks and antennae of these animals.

The radical 貝 (贝 bei) places its characters in the meaning fields of money and trade such as in (gou = buy), 贵 (gui = valuable), 贷 (dai = credit), 贿 (= bribe), 赂 (in : 贿赂 = bribe), 货 (huo = goods), 资 (zi = capital), 赈 (zhen = materially support) and 赃 (zang = stolen goods).

The two snail shells 贝 above in the symbol 婴 (= baby) are derived from the old custom of hanging two snail shells around girls' necks as a chain. Two 贝 (at) next to each other were pronounced, so that this component in 婴 (= infant) carries the sound and the meaning. In the sign 赖 (lai = leaning on someone) the left component 刺 (lai) functions as a sound and the right 贝 (at) as a bearer of meaning. Its original meaning is "to win". The components of 败 (bai = defeat) are the snail shell 贝 (at) and 攴 (pu, radical 66 ), the hand with the stick that smashes the snail shell = loss.

The sign 贼 (zei = thief) consists of the snail shell 贝 (at), the hand (bottom center) and the cutting ax 戈 = hand destroys the snail shell with the ax, which corresponds to the first meaning of the sign: damage. Only later did its importance change to today's thief.

Occasionally, 贝 (at) appears as a sound carrier as in 狈 (at in: 狼狈 = sitting in a tight spot) or 钡 (at = element barium ). In the shortened character 坝 (ba = dam), 贝 (at) only functions as a general component that replaces the original, more complicated one.

Spelling variant of the radical ( abbreviation ): 贝. With 貝 character combinations from U + 8C9D to 贕 U + 8D1C are coded, then with 贝 from U + 8D1D to 赣 U + 8D63.

Note: 贝 is very similar to the abbreviation for radical 147见.


Character combinations ruled by radical 154

Strokes character
+ 00 貝 贝

+ 02 貞 貟 負 贞 负 贠

+ 03 財 貢 貣 貤 贡 财

+ 04 䝧 䝨 貥 貦 貧 貨 販 貪 貫 責 貭 貮 责 贤 败 账 货 质 贩 贪 贫 贬 购 贮 贯

+ 05 䝩 䝪 䝫 䝬 䝭 䝮 䝯 貯 貰 貱 貲 貳 貴 貵 貶 買 貸 貹 貺 費 貼 貽 貾 貿 賀 賁 贰 贱 贲 贳 贴 贵 贶 贷 贸 费 贺 贻

+ 06 䝰 䝱 䝲 䞌 賂 賃 賄 賅 賆 資 賈 賉 賊 賋 賌 賍 賎 贼 贽 贾 贿 赀 赁 赂 赃 资 赅 赆

+ 07 㕢 䝳 䝴 䝵 賏 賐 賑 賒 賓 賔 賕 賖 賗 賘 赇 赈 赉 赊

+ 08 䝶 䝷 䝸 䝹 䝺 䝻 䝼 䝽 䝾 䝿 䞍 䞎 賙 賚 賛 賜 賝 賞 賟 賠 賡 賢 賣 賤 賥 賥 賦 賧 賨 賩 質 賫 賬 赋 赌 赍 赎 赏 赐 赑 赒 赓 赔 赕

+ 09 䞀 䞁 䞂 䞃 䞄 䞏 䞐 賭 賮 賯 賰 賱 賲 賳 賴 賵 赖 赗

+10 䞅 䞆 賶 賷 賸 賹 賺 賻 購 賽 赘 赙 赚 赛

+11 䞇 賾 賿 贀 贂 贃 贄 贅 赜

+12 䞈 贆 贇 贈 贉 贊 贋 贌 赝 赞 赟 赠

+13 䞉 贍 贎 贏 赡 赢

+14 贐 贑 贒 贓 贔

+15 䞊 贕 贖 贗 贘

+16 䞋 贙 贚

+17 贛 赣

+18 贜

+22 贕

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 154 is coded under the code point number 12.185 (U + 2F99).

literature

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 154  - Graphic representations of Radikal 154
  • Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 154 on pages 72 and 133