Radical 45

屮
44 ⼫ ◄	45	► ⼭ 46
Pinyin :	chè (= scion)
Zhuyin :	ㄔ ㄜ ˋ
Hiragana :	て つ tetsu
Kanji :	屮 tetsu
Hangul :	싹날
Sinocorean :	철
Codepoint :	U + 5C6E
Stroke sequence :

The radical 45 with the meaning " sprout , germ " is one of 31 traditional radicals in Chinese writing , which consist of three strokes.

The pictogram represents a germ from whose vertical shoot the flowers sprout. The radical originally meant young grass and was identical to the left part of the radical 140 艸 (grass). Today it is no longer a separate character.

Character combinations ruled by radical 45

Germ

Strokes	character
+ 00	屮
+ 01	屯
+ 03	屰

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 45 is coded under the code point number 12.076 (U + 2F2C).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 193 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 174 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 45  - Graphic representations of Radikal 45

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 45 on page 44