Radical 91

片
90 ⽙ ◄	91	► ⽛ 92
Pinyin :	piàn (= plate)
Zhuyin :	ㄆ 一 ㄢ
Hiragana :	か た kata
Kanji :	片 kata
Hangul :	조각
Sinocorean :	편
Codepoint :	U + 7247
Stroke sequence :

Radical 91 with the meaning “ disk , plate , board ” is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with four lines.

With 10 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "board" accepts only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 91st 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 114th position.

The seal script shape shows a vertically divided tree, the right half of which gives the sign its meaning. In China, wooden chips used to be used as a material for writing on. Many ancient scriptures that have been excavated consist of bamboo tubes split lengthways, on the outside of which the texts were written from top to bottom. 片 (pian) therefore places its characters in the context of the printing plate and the writing medium, for example in 牌 (pai = shield, also in 招牌 zhaopai = sign), 牒 (the = certificates), 牍 (= wooden writing tablet) and 版本 ( banben = edition of a book).

Character combinations ruled by radical 91

Strokes	character
+ 00	片
+ 04	版
+ 05	牉 牊
+ 08	牋 牌 牍
+ 09	牎 牏 牐 牑 牒
+10	牓 牔
+11	牕 牖 牗
+15	牘

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 91 is coded under the code point number 12.122 (U + 2F5A).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 207 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 91  - Graphic representations of Radikal 91

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 91 on page 79