Radical 213

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Chinese character radical

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::summary Chinese character radical ::

Radical 213 meaning "turtle" (龜部) is one of only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only 24 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

In Taoist cosmology, 龜 (Polyhedron) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram 坎 Kǎn.

Characters with Radical 213

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strokes	character
+0	龜亀龟
+5	龝
+12	龞
+20	𪛖
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Main article: wikt:Wiktionary:Chinese radical index 龜

Variant characters

There are a number of variant characters that appear different but mean the same thing:

Gallery

File:Character Gui Oracle.svg|Oracle bone script form of radical 213 File:龜-bronze.svg|Bronze script form of radical 213 File:Radical 213 Guwen.jpg|Guwen version of radical 213 in Shuowen dictionary (seal script form of ) File:Radical 213 Shuowen.jpg|Radical 213 in small seal script in the Shuowen File:Character Gui1 Cler.svg|Radical 213 in clerical script File:亀-red.png|Stroke order of Shinjitai of radical 213 File:Regular Style CJKV Radical 213 (4).svg|Radical 213 in Simplified Chinese File:Variations of the 213th Chinese radical, gui 'tortoise'.png|Variants of the character 龜, collected from printed sources

By typefont

As a CJK Unified Ideograph, has seven separate reference glyphs shown in the Unicode code charts, no two of which are exactly identical:

"G" (Mainland China), for Traditional Chinese in Mainland China (i.e. the forms listed alongside their Simplified Chinese equivalents in the List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters), as in the Guobiao standard GB/T 12345 (the form for Simplified Chinese is encoded separately; see below)
"H" (Hong Kong) for use in Traditional Chinese
"T" (Taiwan) for use in Traditional Chinese
"J" (Japan) for Japanese kyūjitai (the form for Japanese shinjitai is encoded separately; see below)
"K" (South Korea) for use in Korean hanja
"KP" (North Korea) for use in Korean hanja
"V" (Vietnam) for use in Vietnamese Hán Nôm

As such, appearance may subtly vary between fonts intended for different regions:

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Region	Mainland China (traditional)	Hong Kong	Taiwan	Japan (kyūjitai)	South Korea	North Korea
龜	龜	龜	龜	龜	龜	龜
Dot stroke	⺈ shape (like top of 鱼), crosses corner of box below	⺈ shape (like top of 鱼), does not cross corner of box below
From bottom of upper box to tail	From top of upper box to bottom of turtleshell	From top of upper box to between turtleshell and tail	From top of upper box to tail	From bottom of upper box to tail
Legs and turtleshell entirely separate strokes	Legs and turtleshell separate strokes but aligned	Legs and turtleshell single strokes crossing verticals	Legs and turtleshell separate strokes but aligned	Legs and turtleshell single strokes crossing verticals	Legs and turtleshell entirely separate strokes
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In Unicode

Due to an especially large number of variant forms associated with Radical 213, an exceptionally large number of Unicode characters exist displaying variants of the character itself, as opposed to derived characters.

Kangxi Radicals / CJK Radicals Supplement

|2EF1|name1=CJK Radical Turtle |2EF2|name2=CJK Radical J-Simplified Turtle |2EF3|name3=CJK Radical C-Simplified Turtle |2FD4|name4=Kangxi Radical Turtle

Unified Repertoire and Ordering (URO)

|map2=GBK / GB 18030 |map2char1=81 77 |map2char2=FD 94 |map2char3=B9 EA

|map3=EUC-KR / UHC |map3char2=CF CF

|map4=Big5 (generic) |map4char2=C0 74

|map5=Big5-HKSCS |map5char1=89 D0 |map5char2=C0 74

|map6=EUC-TW |map6char1=8E A3 B9 EC |map6char2=F3 BF |map6char3=8E AE D1 A5

|map7=EUC-KPS-9566 |map7char2=D1 B7

|map8=KPS 10721 |map8char1=34 65 |map8char2=92 7E

|map9=Shift JIS |map9char1=8B 54 |map9char2=EA 9D

|map10=EUC-JP |map10char1=B5 B5 |map10char2=F3 FD

|namedref1=Moji Jōhō Kiban |ref1char1=MJ006424 |ref1char2=MJ030155{{efn|1=Additional Moji Jōhō Kiban identifiers for Ideographic Variation Sequences:{{plainlist|1=

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

Supplementary Ideographic Plane

|20074|name1=CJK Unified Ideograph-20074 |200FE|name2=CJK Unified Ideograph-200FE |24563|name3=CJK Unified Ideograph-24563 |259A3|name4=CJK Unified Ideograph-259A3 |27474|name5=CJK Unified Ideograph-27474 |IncludeGB=yes

|map2=KPS 10721 |map2char3=56 89

Literature

Leyi Li: "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases". Beijing 1993,

Footnotes

References

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Lunde, Ken. (2023-08-11). "The Road to 'Ideograph Hell'…".
(2014). "euc-tw-2014.ucm - Update of EUC-TW based on IBM-964". [[IBM]] / [[Unicode Consortium]].
"Map (external version) from Mac OS Chinese Simplified encoding to Unicode 3.0 and later.". [[Apple, Inc]].
"IBM-970". [[International Components for Unicode]].
Steele, Shawn. (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". [[Microsoft]] / [[Unicode Consortium]].
(2002-02-24). "Big5:1984 vs Unicode mapping table". [[Mozilla]] Taiwan.
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Unicode Consortium. (2011-04-27). "KPS 9566-2003 to Unicode".
Unicode Consortium. (2015-12-02). "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
"EUC-JP-2007". [[International Components for Unicode]].
Sim, CheonHyeong. (2022-06-19). "KPS 10721:2000 (Unicode KP1源) 文件重构 (修订版)".
"[龜] 7-2C3A". CNS 11643 Word Information.

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