Radical 125
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|125|uni=8001
|meaning= old
|pny= lǎo
|bopo= ㄌㄠˇ
|gr= lao
|wade= lao3
|jyutping= lou5
|yale= lóuh
|cn= 老字頭/老字头 lǎozìtóu
|onyomi= ロウ rou
|kunyomi= おいる oiru
ふける fukeru
|jp= 老/おい oi
|hang= 늙을 neulgeul
|hanja= 로 ro
}}
Radical 125 or radical old ({{Lang|zh-Hant|老部}}) meaning "{{Linktext|old}}" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|老}} is also the 123rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with {{Linktext|耂|Lang=zh-Hans}} being its associated indexing component.
Evolution
File:老-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:老-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:老-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:老-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
| class="wikitable"
! Strokes !! Characters | |
| −2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耂}} |
| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|老}} {{Linktext|考}} |
| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耄}} {{Linktext|者}} {{Linktext|耆}} |
| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耇}} {{Linktext|耈}} (=耇) {{Linktext|耉}} (=耇) |
| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耊}} (=耋) {{Linktext|耋}} |
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 fourth grade kanji.
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 }}
External links
{{Commons category|Radical 125}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=8001 Unihan Database - U+8001]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}