Radical 127

Chinese character radical
耒
← 126 Radical 127 (U+2F7E) 128 →
耒 (U+8012) "plough"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:lěi
Bopomofo:ㄌㄟˇ
Wade–Giles:lei3
Cantonese Yale:leui6, loi6
Jyutping:leoi6, loi6
Japanese Kana:ライ rai (on'yomi)
すき suki (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:뢰 roe
Names
Japanese name(s):(Left) 耒偏/すきへん sukihen
らいすき raisuki[1]
Hangul:쟁기 jaenggi
Stroke order animation

Radical 127 or radical plough (耒部) meaning "plough" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 84 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

耒 is also the 122nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 耒
+2 耓
+3 耔
+4 耕 耖 耗 耘 耙
+5 耚 耛 耜 耝 耞 耟
+6 耠
+7 耡 耢SC (=耮)
+8 耣 耤 耥
+9 耦 耧SC (=耬)
+10 耨 耩 耪
+11 耫 耬
+12 耭 耮
+14 耯
+15 耰
+16 耱 耲

Variant forms

Traditionally, the first stroke of this radical character is a right-to-left slash. In Simplified Chinese xin zixing, it becomes a horizontal stroke. A similar change was also applied to Japanese jōyō kanji, while hyōgai kanji remain unchanged.

Trad. Chinese
Korean 		Japanese Simp. Chinese
耒 耕 耘 耒 耕 耘 耒 耕 耘

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.

References

  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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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.