Radical 185
| 首 | ||
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| 首 (U+9996) "head" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shǒu | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄡˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | shou3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sau2 | |
| Jyutping: | sau2 | |
| Japanese Kana: | シュ shu / シュウ shū (on'yomi) くび kubi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 수 su | |
| Hán-Việt: | thủ, thú | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 首/くび kubi | |
| Hangul: | 머리 meori | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 185 or radical head (首部) meaning "head" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
首 is also the 187th 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
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters[]
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 首 |
| +2 | 馗 |
| +8 | 馘 |
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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