Radical 29

又
28 ⼛ ◄	29	► ⼝ 30
Pinyin :	yòu (= again)
Zhuyin :	ㄧ ㄡ ˋ
Hiragana :	ま た mata
Kanji :	又 mata (= again)
Hangul :	또 ddo (= again)
Sinocorean :	우 u
Codepoint :	U + 53C8
Stroke sequence :

The radical 29 meaning “again” is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with two strokes.

The radical re-takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals with 214 radicals the 29th 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 35th position.

The character developed from the representation of a hand reaching for something. This radical represents the right hand reduced to three fingers. One point in it, and we have the fork (叉). Two "hands" moving in the same direction mean friendship (友). Sometimes the original meaning hand can still be recognized today, for example in

• 取 (= record) or
• 受 (= received).

This also applies to 叔 (= uncle), which originally meant to collect.
The sign is similar to the katakana sign "nu" ヌ , and the zhuyin sign [ɔʊ̯] ㄡ .

The abbreviation in the People's Republic of China又has become shortened character to a frequently occurring component that different than complicated considered parts replaced, such as in鄧→邓(Deng, a surname Deng Xiaoping ) or戲→戏(= play, play ).

comparison

Some radicals look more or less similar to one another:

radical	29	34	35	36	38	65	66	67	78
character	又	夂	夊	夕	女	支	攴 攵	文	歹 歺
Unicode	U + 53C8	U + 5902	U + 590A	U + 5915	U + 5973	U + 652F	U + 6534 U + 6535	U + 6587	U + 6B79 U + 6B7A
Strokes

There are similar signs in other systems too:

similar	the radical 29		Radical 36	Radical 38
character	Katakana "nu"	Zhuyin "ou"	Katakana "ta"	Zhuyin "p"
character	ヌ	ㄡ	タ	ㄆ
Unicode	U + 30CC	U + 3121	U + 30BF	U + 3106
Strokes

Character combinations ruled by radical 29

Strokes	character
+ 00	又
+ 01	叉
+ 02	及 友 双 反 収
+ 03	叏 叐
+ 04	发 叒
+ 05	叓
+ 06	叔 叕 取 受 变
+ 07	叙 叚 叛 叜 叝
+ 08	叞 叟
+11	叠
+14	叡
+16	叢

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 29 is coded under the code point number 12.060 (U + 2F1C).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 94 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 29  - Graphic representations of Radikal 29

Wiktionary: 又  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 29 on page 14