Radical 131
| 臣 | ||
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| 臣 (U+81E3) "minister, official" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | chén | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄔㄣˊ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | chern | |
| Wade–Giles: | chʽên2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sàhn | |
| Jyutping: | san4 | |
| Japanese Kana: | シン shin / ジン jin (on'yomi) おみ omi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 신 sin | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 臣/しん shin | |
| Hangul: | 신하 sinha | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 131 or radical minister (臣部) meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
臣 is also the 125th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution[]
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters[]
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 臣 |
| +2 | 臤 臥 |
| +6 | 臦 |
| +8 | 臧 |
| +11 | 臨 臩 |
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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