Radical 203

黑 黒
202 ⿉ ◄	203	► ⿋ 204
Pinyin :	hēi (= black)
Zhuyin :	ㄏ ㄟ
Hiragana :	く ろ kuro
Kanji :	黒 kuroi
Hangul :	검을
Sinocorean :	흑
Codepoint :	U + 9ED1 9ED2
Stroke sequence :

Radical 203 , meaning “ black ”, is one of four traditional radicals in Chinese writing with twelve lines.

With 20 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is relatively rare in the lexicon.

The variant 黒 is written with only eleven lines.

Character combinations ruled by radical 203

Strokes	character
+ 00	黑 黒
+ 03	黓
+ 04	黔 黕 黖 黗 默 黙
+ 05	黚 黛 黜 黝 點
+ 06	黟 黠 黡
+ 07	黢 黣
+ 08	黤 黥 黦 黧 黨 黩 黪
+ 09	黫 黬 黭 黮 黯
+10	黰 黱
+11	黲 黳 黴
+13	黵
+14	黶
+15	黷
+16	黸

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 203 is coded under the code point number 12.234 (U + 2FCA).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 216 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 308 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 203  - Graphic representations of Radikal 203