Radical 10
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{About|radical legs (儿)|radical ten (十)|Radical 24|the five-stroke "legs" radical dotted tent (癶)|Radical 105|the Japanese katakana character (ル)|Ru (kana)}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|10|uni=513F
|meaning=legs
|pny= ér (SC), rén
|bopo= ㄦˊ (SC), ㄖㄣˊ
|gr= erl (SC), ren
|wade= êrh2 (SC), jên2
|jyutping= jan4
|yale= yàhn
|poj= jî
|cn= 兒字底/儿字底 érzìdǐ
|onyomi= ジン jin / ニン nin
|jp= 人繞/にんにょう ninnyō
人足/ひとあしhitoashi
|hang= 어진사람 eojinsalam
|hanja= 인 in
|hanviet=nhân
}}
Radical 10 or radical legs (儿部) meaning "legs" is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 52 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|儿}} is also the 14th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In addition, this radical is commonly pronounced ér among Simplified Chinese users as {{Lang|zh|儿}} is the simplified form of {{Linktext|兒|lang=zh}} ér. However, the meaning of {{Lang|zh|儿}} as a radical is irrelevant to {{Lang|zh|兒}}.
Evolution
File:儿-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script
File:儿-bronze.svg|Bronze script
File:儿-bigseal.svg|Large seal script
File:儿-seal.svg|Small seal script
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|儿}} |
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| +1 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兀}} |
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| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|允}} {{Linktext|兂}} (={{Linktext|簪}} -> 竹) {{Linktext|元}} |
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| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兄}} |
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| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|充}} {{Linktext|兆}} {{Linktext|兇}} {{Linktext|先}} {{Linktext|光}} {{Linktext|兊}} (={{Linktext|兌}}) {{Linktext|尧}}SC (={{Linktext|堯}} -> 土) |
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| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|克}} {{Linktext|兌}} {{Linktext|兎}}JP/variant (=兔) {{Linktext|兏}} (={{Linktext|長}} -> 長) {{Linktext|児}}JP (=兒) {{Linktext|兑}}SC/HK (=兌) |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|免}} {{Linktext|兒}} {{Linktext|兓}} {{Linktext|兔}} {{Linktext|兕}} {{Linktext|兖}}SC/variant (=兗) |
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| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兗}} {{Linktext|兘}} {{Linktext|兙}} |
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| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|党}} (also SC/JP form of {{Linktext|黨}} -> 黑) {{Linktext|兛}} |
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| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兜}} {{Linktext|兝}} {{Linktext|兞}} |
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| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兟}} {{Linktext|兠}} |
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| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兡}} |
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| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兢}} |
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| +14 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兣}} |
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| +18 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兤|lang=zh-Hans}}GB TC variant |
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| +19 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|兤|lang=zh-Hant}}Traditional variant |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It means child, and sometimes simply means erhua phonetically
. 兒 is sometimes used to differentiate when it specifically means child and not phonetic use.
Further reading
- {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, {{ISBN|978-7-5619-0204-2}}
External links
{{Commons category|Radical 010}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=513F Unihan Database - U+513F]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}