Radical 159
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 159 | uni |
| meaning | cart, car |
| pny | chē |
| bopo | ㄔㄜ |
| wade | ch'e1 |
| jyutping | ce1, geoi1 |
| yale | che1, geui1 |
| cn | (Left) 車字旁/车字旁 chēzìpáng |
| (Bottom) 車字底/车字底 chēzìdǐ | |
| onyomi | シャ sha |
| kunyomi | くるま kuruma |
| jp | 車/くるま kuruma |
| 車偏/くるまへん kurumahen | |
| hang | 수레 sure |
| hanja | 거 geo |
| hanviet | xa, xe, xế |
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|159|uni=8ECA |meaning= cart, car |pny= chē |bopo= ㄔㄜ |wade= ch'e1 |jyutping= ce1, geoi1 |yale= che1, geui1 |cn= (Left) 車字旁/车字旁 chēzìpáng (Bottom) 車字底/车字底 chēzìdǐ |onyomi= シャ sha |kunyomi= くるま kuruma |jp= 車/くるま kuruma 車偏/くるまへん kurumahen |hang= 수레 sure |hanja= 거 geo |hanviet= xa, xe, xế ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/车-order.gif" caption="车}}"] ::
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Radical 159 or radical cart (車部) meaning "cart" or "car" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 361 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
车, the simplified form of 車, is the 68th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 車 is listed as its associated indexing components. 车 is derived from the cursive form of 車.
Evolution
File:車-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:車-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:車-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:車-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters (車) | Characters (车) |
|---|---|---|
| +0 | 車 | 车SC (=車) |
| +1 | 軋 | 轧SC (=軋) |
| +2 | 軌 軍 轨SC (=軌) | |
| +3 | 軎 (=轊) 軏 軐 軑 軒 軓 軔 軕 | 轩SC (=軒) 轪SC (=軑) 轫SC (=軔) |
| +4 | 軖 軗 軘 軙 軚 軛 軜 軝 軞 軟 軠 軡 転JP (=轉) 軣JP nonstandard (=轟) | 转SC (=轉) 轭SC (=軛) 轮SC (=輪) 软SC (=軟) 轰SC (=轟) |
| +5 | 軤 軥 軦 軧 軨 軩 軪 軫 軬 軮 軯 軰 軱 軲 軳 軴 軵 軶 (=軛) 軷 軸 軹 軺 軻 軼 軽JP (=輕; also variant form of 輊) | 轱SC (=軲) 轲SC (=軻) 轳SC (=轤) 轴SC (=軸) 轵SC (=軹) 轶SC (=軼) 轷SC (=軤) 轸SC (=軫) 轹SC (=轢) 轺SC (=軺) 轻SC (=輕) |
| +6 | 軭 軾 軿 輀 輁 輂 較 輄 輅 輆 輇 輈 載 輊 輋 輌JP (=輛) | 轼SC (=軾) 载SC (=載) 轾SC (=輊) 轿SC (=轎) 辀SC (=輈) 辁SC (=輇) 辂SC (=輅) 较SC (=較) |
| +7 | 輍 輎 輏 輐 輑 輒 輓 輔 輕 | 辄SC (=輒) 辅SC (=輔) 辆SC (=輛) |
| +8 | 輖 輗 輘 輙 (=輒) 輚 輛 輜 輝 輞 輟 輠 輡 輢 輣 輤 輥 輦 輧 輨 輩 輪 輫 輬 | 辇SC (=輦) 辈SC (=輩) 辉SC (=輝) 辊SC (=輥) 辋SC (=輞) 辌SC (=輬) 辍SC (=輟) 辎SC (=輜) |
| +9 | 輭 (=軟) 輮 輯 輰 輱 輲 輳 輴 輵 輶 輷 輸 輹 輺 (=輜) 輻 輼HK/GB TC (=轀) | 辏SC (=輳) 辐SC (=輻) 辑SC (=輯) 辒SC (=轀) 输SC (=輸) 辔SC (=轡) |
| +10 | 輽 (=軬) 輾 輿 轀 轁 轂 轃 轄 轅 | 辕SC (=轅) 辖SC (=轄) 辗SC (=輾) |
| +11 | 轆 轇 轈 轉 轊 轋 轌 | 辘SC (=轆) |
| +12 | 轍 轎 轏 轐 轑 轒 轓 轔 | 辙SC (=轍) 辚SC (=轔) |
| +13 | 轕 轖 轗 轘 轙 轚 | |
| +14 | 轛 轜 轝 轞 轟 | |
| +15 | 轠 轡 轢 | |
| +16 | 轣 轤 | |
| +20 | 轥 | |
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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.
References
Literature
References
- "Unihan data for U+8ECA". [[Unicode Consortium]].
- "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo".
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