Radical 209

鼻
208 ⿏ ◄	209	► ⿑ 210
Pinyin :	bí (= nose, 鼻子 bízi)
Zhuyin :	ㄅ ㄧ ˊ
Hiragana :	は な hana
Kanji :	鼻 hana (= nose)
Hangul :	코
Sinocorean :	비
Codepoint :	U + 9F3B
Stroke sequence :

Radical 209 , meaning " nose ", is one of two traditional fourteen-stroke radicals in Chinese writing .

With 9 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it is very rare. In the Kangxi dictionary there were still 49 characters that could be found under this radical.

Closely related to this sign is the character for " self " 自 ( radical 132 ), which shows a nose in frontal view. By the way, in East Asia you point to your nose, not your chest, when you want to point to yourself.

The compound radical consists of the components 自 zì and 畀 bì. The latter acts here as a sound carrier. Originally the upper part 自 already meant “nose”. The sign with a sound component is now used for the meaning nose, and that without a sound component, quasi as 假借 字 jǐajìezì of nose, for the meaning “self”. The meaning of 畀 has nothing to do with “nose” itself. It means “to give” but is no longer used in standard Chinese - 丌 jī, like 几, and 机, originally “small table”, is probably the sound component of 畀.

Signs with the radical 鼻 are related to "nose" such as:

character	Explanation
劓	Cutting off the nose as a punishment
擤	blow your nose
鼾	snoring

Different character sets show the character of Codepoint U + 9F3B slightly differently, the Japanese spelling has lengthened the two bars below.

Character combinations ruled by radical 209

Difference in China and Japan

Strokes	character
+ 00	鼻
+ 02	鼼 鼽
+ 03	鼾 鼿
+ 05	齀 齁
+ 08	齂
+ 09	齃 齄
+10	齅 齆
+11	齇
+13	齈
+22	齉

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 209 is coded under the code point number 12.240 (U + 2FD0).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 42 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 209  - Graphic representations of Radikal 209

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 209 on page 149