Radical 135

{{short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|135|uni=820C

|meaning= tongue

|pny= shé

|bopo= ㄕㄜˊ

|wade= she2

|jyutping= sit6, sit3

|yale= sit6

|cn= (Left) 舌字旁 shézìpáng

|onyomi= セツ setsu / ゼチ zechi

|kunyomi= した shita

|jp= 舌/した shita

|hang= 혀 hyeo

|hanja= 설 seol

}}

Radical 135 or radical tongue ({{Lang|zh-Hant|舌部}}) meaning "tongue" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|舌}} is also the 134th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

File:舌-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:舌-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:舌-seal.svg|Small seal script character

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! Strokes !! Characters

+0style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舌}}
+2style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舍}} {{Linktext|舎}}JP (=舍) {{Linktext|舏}}
+4style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舐}}
+5style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舑}}
+6style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舒}}
+8style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舓}} (=舐) {{Linktext|舔}} {{Linktext|舕}}
+9style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舖}} (={{Linktext|鋪}} -> ) {{Linktext|舗}}
+10style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舘}} (={{Linktext|館}} -> )
+12style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舙}} (={{Linktext|話}} -> / {{Linktext|咠}} -> )
+13style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|舚}}

Variant forms

In the Kangxi Dictionary and in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, this radical character begins with a horizontal stroke, while in other languages, it begins with a left-falling stroke.

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Kangxi Dictionary
Modern Trad. Chinese

!Simp. Chinese
Japanese
Korean

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|lang="zh-tw"|舌

|lang="zh-cn"|舌

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. It is a fifth grade kanji.{{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}}

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 }}