Radical 135
| 舌 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 舌 (U+820C) "tongue" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shé | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄜˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | she2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sit6 | |
| Jyutping: | sit6, sit3 | |
| Japanese Kana: | セツ setsu / ゼチ zechi (on'yomi) した shita (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 설 seol | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Left) 舌字旁 shézìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 舌/した shita | |
| Hangul: | 혀 hyeo | |
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Radical 135 or radical tongue (舌部) meaning "tongue" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
舌 is also the 134th 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
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 舌 |
| +2 | 舍 舎JP (=舍) 舏 |
| +4 | 舐 |
| +5 | 舑 |
| +6 | 舒 |
| +8 | 舓 (=舐) 舔 舕 |
| +9 | 舖 (=鋪 -> 金) 舗 |
| +10 | 舘 (=館 -> 食) |
| +12 | 舙 (=話 -> 言 / 咠 -> 口) |
| +13 | 舚 |
Variant forms[]
In the Kangxi Dictionary and in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, this radical character begins with a horizontal stroke, while in other languages, it begins with a left-falling stroke.
| Kangxi Dictionary Modern Trad. Chinese |
Simp. Chinese Japanese Korean |
|---|---|
| 舌 | 舌 |
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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