Radical 200
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 200 | uni |
| meaning | hemp, flax |
| pny | má |
| bopo | ㄇㄚˊ |
| wade | ma2 |
| jyutping | maa4 |
| yale | ma4 |
| onyomi | マ ma / バ ba |
| kunyomi | あさ asa |
| jp | 麻/あさ asa |
| 麻冠/あさかんむり asakanmuri | |
| hang | 삼 sam |
| hanja | 마 ma |
| hanviet | ma, mà, mơ |
| :: |
|200|uni=9EBB |meaning= hemp, flax |pny= má |bopo= ㄇㄚˊ |wade= ma2 |jyutping= maa4 |yale= ma4 |cn= |onyomi= マ ma / バ ba |kunyomi= あさ asa |jp= 麻/あさ asa 麻冠/あさかんむり asakanmuri |hang= 삼 sam |hanja= 마 ma |hanviet= ma, mà, mơ
Radical 200 or radical hemp (麻部) meaning "hemp" or "flax" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes. Historically, it is the Chinese word for cannabis.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
麻 is also the 193rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:麻-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:麻-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:麻-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 麻 |
| +3 | 麼 麽 (=麼) |
| +4 | 麾 |
| +7 | 麿 |
| +8 | 黀 |
| +9 | 黁 |
| +13 | 黂 (=𪎰) |
| :: |
Variant forms
麻-mingti-kangxi.svg|Radical 200 in the Kangxi Dictionary Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (1).svg|A variant form Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (2).svg|Standard form in Traditional Chinese Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (3).svg|Standard form in Japanese Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (4).svg|Standard form in Simplified Chinese
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 麻 is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji. It is part of taima (大麻), a Japanese word for cannabis.
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