Radical 100
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|100|uni=751F
|meaning=life
|pny= shēng
|bopo= ㄕㄥ
|gr= sheng
|wade= shêng1
|jyutping= saang1
|yale= sāang
|cn=
|onyomi= セイ sei / ショウ shō
|kunyomi= い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru
|jp= いきる ikiru
うまれる umareru
せい sei
しょう shō
|hang= 날 nal
|hanja= 생 saeng
}}
Radical 100 or radical life ({{Lang|zh-Hant|生部}}) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=751F|title=Unihan data for Unihan data for U+751F|publisher=Unicode Consortium|access-date=30 March 2011}}
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|生}} is also the 109th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:生-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:生-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:生-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:生-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|生}} |
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| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|甠}} |
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| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|甡}} |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|產}} {{Linktext|産}} |
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| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|甤}} {{Linktext|甥}} {{Linktext|甦}} |
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| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|甧}} |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}} It is a first grade kanji.
The character alone is present in the phrase worship of the living.
References
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Literature
- {{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 }}
- {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}
{{Commons category|Radical 100}}
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}