Radical 100
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 100 | uni |
| meaning | life |
| pny | shēng |
| bopo | ㄕㄥ |
| gr | sheng |
| wade | shêng1 |
| jyutping | saang1 |
| yale | sāang |
| onyomi | セイ sei / ショウ shō |
| kunyomi | い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru |
| jp | いきる ikiru |
| うまれる umareru | |
| せい sei | |
| しょう shō | |
| hang | 날 nal |
| hanja | 생 saeng |
| :: |
|100|uni=751F |meaning=life |pny= shēng |bopo= ㄕㄥ |gr= sheng |wade= shêng1 |jyutping= saang1 |yale= sāang |cn= |onyomi= セイ sei / ショウ shō |kunyomi= い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru |jp= いきる ikiru うまれる umareru せい sei しょう shō |hang= 날 nal |hanja= 생 saeng
Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
生 is also the 109th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:生-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:生-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:生-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:生-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 生 |
| +4 | 甠 |
| +5 | 甡 |
| +6 | 產 産 |
| +7 | 甤 甥 甦 |
| +9 | 甧 |
| :: |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.
The character alone is present in the phrase worship of the living.
References
Literature
References
- "Unihan data for Unihan data for U+751F". [[Unicode Consortium]].
- "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo".
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