Radical 125
| 老 | ||
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| 老 (U+8001) "old" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | lǎo | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄌㄠˇ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | lao | |
| Wade–Giles: | lao3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | lóuh | |
| Jyutping: | lou5 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ロウ rou (on'yomi) おいる oiru ふける fukeru (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 로 ro | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 老字頭/老字头 lǎozìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 老/おい oi | |
| Hangul: | 늙을 neulgeul | |
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Radical 125 or radical old (老部) meaning "old" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
老 is also the 123rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 耂 being its associated indexing component.
Evolution[]
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters[]
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| −2 | 耂 |
| +0 | 老 考 |
| +4 | 耄 者 耆 |
| +5 | 耇 耈 (=耇) 耉 (=耇) |
| +6 | 耊 (=耋) 耋 |
Literature[]
- 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.
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