Radical 131
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|131|uni=81E3
|meaning= minister, official
|pny= chén
|bopo= ㄔㄣˊ
|gr= chern
|wade= ch{{wg-apos}}ên2
|jyutping= san4
|yale= sàhn
|cn=
|onyomi= シン shin / ジン jin
|kunyomi= おみ omi
|jp= 臣/しん shin
|hang= 신하 sinha
|hanja= 신 sin
}}
Radical 131 or radical minister ({{Lang|zh-Hant|臣部}}) meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|臣}} is also the 125th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:臣-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:臣-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:臣-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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! Strokes !! Characters | |
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|臣}} |
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| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|臤}} {{Linktext|臥}} |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|臦}} |
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| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|臧}} |
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| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|臨}} {{Linktext|臩}} |
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram it is a 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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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 }}
- {{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= https://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}
External links
{{Commons category|Radical 131}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=81E3 Unihan Database - U+81E3]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}