Radical 201
黃 黄 | ||
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200 ⿇ ◄ | 201 | ► ⿉ 202 |
Pinyin : | huáng (= yellow) | |
Zhuyin : | ㄏ ㄨ ㄤ ˊ | |
Hiragana : | き い ろ kiiro kiiro | |
Kanji : | 黄色 kiiro (= yellow) | |
Hangul : | 누를 | |
Sinocorean : | 황 slope (= yellow) | |
Codepoint : | U + 9EC3 9EC4 |
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Stroke sequence : |
Radical 201 , meaning “ yellow ”, is one of four of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with twelve lines.
With two combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.
The original pictogram is difficult to interpret. A man with a torch stands on a yellow floor. It could mean the loess , the mud that the Yellow River deposits. Under the Qing Dynasty , the color yellow was reserved for the imperial house and represented the emperor who was responsible for fertility and drought.
Spelling variant of the radical: 黃, with eleven lines.
Character combinations ruled by radical 201
Strokes | character |
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+ | 0黃 黄
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+ | 4黅 黆
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+ | 5黇 黈 黉
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+ | 6黊 黋
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+13 | 黌 |
In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 201 is coded under the code point number 12.232 (U + 2FC8).
literature
- Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 217 .
- For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature
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