Radical 214

龠
213 ⿔ ◄	214	► ⼀ 1
Pinyin :	yuè (= flute)
Zhuyin :	ㄩ ㄝ ˋ
Hiragana :	や く yaku
Kanji :	龠 yaku (= flute)
Hangul :	피리
Sinocorean :	약 yak (= flute)
Codepoint :	U + 9FA0
Stroke sequence :

Radical 214 , meaning " flute ", is the only one of 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that is written with seventeen strokes.

With 6 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are very few characters found under this radical in the dictionary. And even in the 40,000-character Kangxi dictionary, there are only 21 characters that can be found under this radical.

Radikal 214 represents a pan flute : several bamboo tubes next to each other, the openings in the middle (three mouths) and the symbol "put together" (triangle) at the top. With the radical metal , this symbol is called 鑰 "key", because the beard of old keys was vaguely reminiscent of bamboo tubes.

Character compounds ruled by radical 214

pan flute

chinese bamboo flute

Strokes	character
+ 00	龠
+ 04	龡
+ 05	龢
+ 08	龣
+ 09	龤 龥

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 214 is coded under the code point number 12.245 (U + 2FD5).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 148 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 312 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 214  - Graphic representations of Radikal 214