Radical 127
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|127|uni=8012
|meaning= plough
|pny= lěi
|bopo= ㄌㄟˇ
|wade= lei3
|jyutping= leoi6, loi6
|yale= leui6, loi6
|cn=
|onyomi= ライ rai
|kunyomi= すき suki
|jp= (Left) 耒偏/すきへん sukihen
らいすき raisuki{{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 }}
|hang= 쟁기 jaenggi
|hanja= 뢰 roe
}}
Radical 127 or radical plough ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|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
File:耒-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:耒-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:耒-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
| class="wikitable"
! Strokes !! Characters | |
| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耒}} |
| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耓}} |
| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耔}} |
| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耕}} {{Linktext|耖}} {{Linktext|耗}} {{Linktext|耘}} {{Linktext|耙}} |
| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耚}} {{Linktext|耛}} {{Linktext|耜}} {{Linktext|耝}} {{Linktext|耞}} {{Linktext|耟}} |
| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耠}} |
| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耡}} {{Linktext|耢}}SC (=耮) |
| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耣}} {{Linktext|耤}} {{Linktext|耥}} |
| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耦}} {{Linktext|耧}}SC (=耬) |
| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耨}} {{Linktext|耩}} {{Linktext|耪}} |
| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耫}} {{Linktext|耬}} |
| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耭}} {{Linktext|耮}} |
| +14 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耯}} |
| +15 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耰}} |
| +16 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|耱}} {{Linktext|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.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! Trad. Chinese ! Japanese ! Simp. Chinese |
| style="font-size:4em;font-family:serif;line-height:100%;"
| lang="zh-tw"|耒 耕 耘 | lang="ja"|耒 耕 耘 | lang="zh-cn"|耒 耕 耘 |
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 }}
References
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