Radical 173
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 173 | uni |
| meaning | rain |
| pny | yǔ |
| bopo | ㄩˇ |
| wade | yü3 |
| jyutping | jyu5, jyu6 |
| yale | yu5 |
| cn | 雨字頭/雨字头 yǔzìtóu |
| onyomi | ウ u |
| kunyomi | あめ ame |
| jp | 雨冠/あめかんむり amekanmuri |
| hang | 비 bi |
| hanja | 우 u |
| hanviet | vũ |
| :: |
|173|uni=96E8 |meaning= rain |pny= yǔ |bopo= ㄩˇ |wade= yü3 |jyutping= jyu5, jyu6 |yale= yu5 |cn= 雨字頭/雨字头 yǔzìtóu |onyomi= ウ u |kunyomi= あめ ame |jp= 雨冠/あめかんむり amekanmuri |hang= 비 bi |hanja= 우 u |hanviet= vũ
Radical 173 or radical rain (雨部) meaning "rain" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into ⻗ when used as an upper component.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
雨 is also the 170th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the component form ⻗ listed as its associated indexing component.
Evolution
File:雨-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:雨-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:雨-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:雨-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 雨 |
| +3 | 雩 雪 雫 |
| +4 | 雬 雭 雮 雯 雰 雱 雲 雳SC (=靂) |
| +5 | 雴 雵 零 雷 雸 雹 雺 電 雼 雽 雾SC (=霧) |
| +6 | 雿 需 霁SC (=霽) |
| +7 | 霂 霃 霄 霅 霆 震 霈 霉SC (also SC form of 黴 - 黑) 霊JP (=靈) |
| +8 | 霋 霌 霍 霎 霏 霐 霑 霒 (=𩃬) 霓 霔 霕 霖 霗 (=零) |
| +9 | 霘 霙 霚 (=霧) 霛 (=靈) 霜 霝 霞 霟 霠 |
| +10 | 霡SC (=霢) 霢 霣 霤 霥 |
| +11 | 霦 霧 霨 霩 霪 霫 霬 霭SC (=靄) |
| +12 | 霮 霯 霰 霱 露 霳 霴 |
| +13 | 霵 霶 霷 霸 霹 霺 (=溦 - 水) 霻 |
| +14 | 霼 霽 霾 霿 靀 (=濛 - 水) |
| +15 | 靁 (=雷) |
| +16 | 靂 靃 靄 靅 靆 靇 靈 |
| +17 | 靉 |
| +18 | 靊 |
| +19 | 靋 靌 (=寶 - 宀) 靍 (=鶴 - 鳥) 靎 |
| +21 | 靏 |
| +31 | 靐 |
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Variant forms
This radical is printed and written differently in modern Traditional Chinese than in other languages. In Chinese as used in Mainland China (whether Simplified or Traditional) and Japanese, the four dots in the character are almost identical, while in modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the four dots point inwards to the center of the character, despite the former form is also widely used in Traditional Chinese publications.
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| Japanese | Mainland China | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
|---|---|---|
| 雨 雲 | 雨 雲 | 雨 雲 |
| :: |
Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (0).svg|Independent character as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (1).svg|Independent character as used in Traditional Chinese Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (3).svg|Component form as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (5).svg|Component form as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese (alternative) Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (4).svg|Component form as used in Traditional Chinese
Sinogram
This character is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.
Literature
References
References
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