Radical 57 or radical bow (弓部) meaning "bow" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
弓 | ||
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弓 (U+5F13) "bow" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | gōng | |
Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄥ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | gong | |
Wade–Giles: | kung1 | |
Cantonese Yale: | gūng | |
Jyutping: | gung1 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | kiong | |
Japanese Kana: | キュウ kyū (on'yomi) ゆみ yumi (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 궁 gung | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 弓字旁 gōngzìpáng | |
Japanese name(s): | 弓/ゆみ yumi 弓偏/ゆみへん yumihen | |
Hangul: | 활 hwal | |
Stroke order animation | ||
In the Kangxi Dictionary, 165 characters (out of 49,030) can be found under this radical.
弓 is also the 53rd 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 |
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+0 | 弓 |
+1 | 弔 引 弖 |
+2 | 弗 弘 |
+3 | 弙 弚 弛 弜 |
+4 | 弝 弞 弟 张SC (張) |
+5 | 弡 弢 弣 弤 弥 弦 弨 弩 弪 |
+6 | 弧 弫 弬 弭 弮 弯SC/弯JP (=彎) |
+7 | 弰 弱 弲 弳SC (=弳) |
+8 | 弴 張 弶 強 弸 弹SC (=彈) |
+9 | 强 弻 弼 弽 弾 |
+10 | 弿 彀 彁"ghost character" 彂 (=發 -> 癶) |
+11 | 彃 彄 彅JP |
+12 | 彆 彇 彈 彉 |
+13 | 彊 (=強) 彋 |
+14 | 彌 |
+15 | 彍 |
+19 | 彎 |
+20 | 彏 |
Sinogram
As an independent Chinese character, it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]
References
Further reading
- 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.
External links
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