Radical 88
| 父 | ||
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| 父 (U+7236) "father" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | fù | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄈㄨˋ | |
| Wade–Giles: | fu4 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | fuh | |
| Jyutping: | fu2/fu6 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | hū | |
| Japanese Kana: | フ fu (on'yomi) ちち chichi (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 부 bu | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 父字頭/父字头 fùzìtóu | |
| Japanese name(s): | 父/ちち chichi | |
| Hangul: | 아비 abi | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 88 or radical father (父部) meaning "father" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
父 is also the 87th 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 | 父 |
| +2 | 爷SC (=爺) |
| +4 | 爸 |
| +5 | 㸖 |
| +6 | 爹 |
| +9 | 爺 |
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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