Radical 57
Appearance
弓 | ||
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弓 (U+5F13) "bow" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | gōng | |
Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | gong | |
Wade–Giles: | kung1 | |
Cantonese Yale: | gūng | |
Jyutping: | gung1 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kiong | |
Japanese Kana: | キュウ kyū (on'yomi) ゆみ yumi (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 궁 gung | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 弓字旁 gōngzìpáng | |
Japanese name(s): | 弓/ゆみ yumi 弓偏/ゆみへん yumihen | |
Hangul: | 활 hwal | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, 165 characters (out of 49,030) can be found under this radical.
弓 is also the 53rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
[edit]Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 弓 |
+1 | 弔 引 弖 |
+2 | 弗 弘 |
+3 | 弙 弚 弛 弜 |
+4 | 弝 弞 弟 张SC (張) |
+5 | 弡 弢 弣 弤 弥 弦 弨 弩 弪 |
+6 | 弧 弫 弬 弭 弮 弯SC/弯JP (=彎) |
+7 | 弰 弱 弲 弳SC (=弳) |
+8 | 弴 張 弶 強 弸 弹SC (=彈) |
+9 | 强 弻 弼 弽 弾 |
+10 | 弿 彀 彁"ghost character" 彂 (=發 -> 癶) |
+11 | 彃 彄 彅JP |
+12 | 彆 彇 彈 彉 |
+13 | 彊 (=強) 彋 |
+14 | 彌 |
+15 | 彍 |
+19 | 彎 |
+20 | 彏 |
Sinogram
[edit]As an independent Chinese character, it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Further reading
[edit]- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
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