Radical 15
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 15 | uni |
| meaning | ice |
| pny | bīng |
| bopo | ㄅ一ㄥ |
| wade | ping1 |
| jyutping | bing1 |
| yale | bing1 |
| poj | peng |
| cn | 兩點水/两点水 liǎngdiǎnshuǐ |
| onyomi | ヒョウ hyō |
| kunyomi | こおり kōri |
| jp | 二水/にすい nisui |
| hang | 얼음 eoreum |
| hanja | 빙 bing |
| hanviet | băng |
| :: |
|15|uni=51AB |meaning= ice |pny= bīng |bopo= ㄅ一ㄥ |wade= ping1 |jyutping= bing1 |yale= bing1 |poj= peng |cn=兩點水/两点水 liǎngdiǎnshuǐ |onyomi= ヒョウ hyō |kunyomi= こおり kōri |jp= 二水/にすい nisui |hang= 얼음 eoreum |hanja= 빙 bing |hanviet= băng
Radical 15 or radical ice (冫部), meaning ice, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 115 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
冫 is also the 18th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:仌-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:仌-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
Note that in modern Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, radical ice in some characters (e.g. 冬, 寒) is now written as two dots. Their original forms are retained in Korean hanja and some old Traditional Chinese typefaces (e.g. 冬, 寒).
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 冫 |
| +3 | 冬 冭 冮 冯SC (=馮 - 馬) |
| +4 | 冰 (ice) 冱 冲SC/variant (沖 - 水 / 衝 - 行) 决SC/variant (=決 - 水) 冴 |
| +5 | 况SC/variant (=況 - 水, condition) 冶 冷 冸 冹 冺 |
| +6 | 冻SC (=凍, to freeze) 冼 冽 冾 冿 净SC (=淨 - 水, clean) |
| +7 | 凁 凂 凃 |
| +8 | 凄 凅 准 凇 凈 (=淨 - 水) 凉SC/variant (=涼 - 水, cool) 凊 凋 凌 凍 凎 |
| +9 | 减SC/variant (=減 - 水, reduce) 凐 凑SC/variant (=湊 - 水, gather) |
| +10 | 凒 凓 凔 凕 凖 (=準 - 水) |
| +11 | 凗 |
| +12 | 凘 |
| +13 | 凙 凚 凛SC/JP variant 凜TC variant |
| +14 | 凝 凞 |
| +15 | 凟 |
| :: |
In both Unihan database and mainland China's standard, the Simplified Chinese character 习 (=習) falls under radical second (Unihan: 乙部, China: 乛部 or its variant form 𠃌) instead of radical ice.
Literature
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
- KangXi: page 131, character 15
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1607
- Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 295, character 1
References
References
- (2016-03-22). "Learn more "Ice" Radical Related Chinese Characters -".
- GB13000.1字符集汉字部首归部规范 ''Specification for Identifying Indexing Components of GB 13000.1 Chinese Characters Set'' {{sic
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