Radical 172

隹
171 ⾪ ◄	172	► ⾬ 173
Pinyin :	zhuī (= little bird)
Zhuyin :	ㄓ ㄨ ㄟ
Hiragana :	ふ る と り furutori
Kanji :	隹 furutori (= old bird)
Hangul :	새
Sinocorean :	추
Codepoint :	U + 96B9
Stroke sequence :

Radical 172 , meaning little " bird ", is one of nine of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with eight strokes.

With 32 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are relatively many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

Radical bird takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 172. 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 208th position.

This character no longer occurs as a single character. The oracle bones and bronze form show a bird with a short tail, which is why the characters with 隹 as a bearer of meaning belong in the context of birds such as 雀 (麻雀 = sparrow), 雁 (大雁 = wild goose), 雕 (in: 老 雕 = vulture). 雇 (= rent) consists of 户 (hu) as a carrier of sound and 隹 as a carrier of meaning and originally referred to a migratory bird. Also 难 (= difficult) initially stood for a bird and only later assumed the meaning difficult as a loan symbol. 集 (= gathering) originally consisted of three 隹, two below, one above and one 木 (mu = tree) below: three birds have gathered on a tree. As a sound carrier, 隹 functions in numerous characters such as 椎 (= cervical vertebra), 锥 (= awl), 谁 (= who), 堆 (= spur), 推 (= push), 唯 or 惟 (= alone) and on behalf of the Huai River淮. 售 (= sell) actually spelled itself with 言 (= word) on the left and 雠, two birds on the right, which served as sound carriers.

Character compounds ruled by radical 172

House Sparrow , a " little bird "

Strokes	character
+ 00	隹
+ 02	隺 隻 隼 隽 难
+ 03	寉 隿 雀
+ 04	雁 雂 雃 雄 雅 集 雇 雈
+ 05	雉 雊 雋 雌 雍 雎 雏
+ 06	雐 雑 雒
+ 07	雓
+ 08	雔 雕
+ 09	雖
+10	雗 雘 雙 雚 雛 雜 雝 雞 雟 雠
+11	雡 離 難
+13	雤
+16	雥 雦
+20	雧

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 172 is coded under the code point number 12.203 (U + 2FAB).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 160 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 92 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 172  - Graphic representations of Radikal 172

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 172 on page 141