Radical 16
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{For|the Cyrillic letter|Ԉ}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|16|uni=51E0
|meaning= small table
|pny= jī
|bopo= ㄐ一
|wade= chi1
|jyutping= gei1
|yale= gei1
|poj= kí
|onyomi= キ ki
|kunyomi= つくえ tsukue
|cn= (Surrounding) 几字頭/几子头 jīzìtóu
(Bottom) 几字底 jīzìdǐ
|jp= 机/つくえ tsukue
几繞/きにょう kinyō
几構/きがまえ/つくえがまえ kigamae/tsukuegamae
風構/かぜがまえ/かざがまえ kazegamae/kazagamae
|hang= 안석 anseok
|hanja= 궤 gwe
|hanviet= kỷ
}}
Radical 16 or radical table (几部), meaning small table, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|几}} is also the 16th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. {{Lang|zh-Hans|𠘨}} is an associated indexing component affiliated to the principal component {{Lang|zh-Hans|几}}. In addition, the identical character {{Linktext|几}} used in Simplified Chinese for {{Linktext|幾}} jǐ used to ask "how many" for small amounts or to mean "a few, some, almost, nearly" does not have any historical connection to the "table" character.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
Evolution
File:几-silk.svg|Chu bamboo and slip script character
File:几-seal.svg|Shuowen seal script character
File:几-bigseal.svg|Liushutong character
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|几}} |
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| +1 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凡}} {{Linktext|凢}} (=凡) {{Linktext|凣}} (=凡) |
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| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凤}}SC (={{Linktext|鳳}} -> 鳥) |
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| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凥}} {{Linktext|処}}JP (={{Linktext|處}} -> 虍) {{Linktext|凧}}JP |
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| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凨}} (={{Linktext|風}} -> 風) {{Linktext|凩}}JP {{Linktext|凪}}JP {{Linktext|凫}}SC (={{Linktext|鳧}} -> 鳥) |
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| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凬}} |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凭}} {{Linktext|凮}} {{Linktext|凯}}SC (={{Linktext|凱}}) |
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| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巬}} |
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| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凰}} |
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| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凱}} {{Linktext|凲}} |
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| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|凳}} {{Linktext|凴}} (={{Linktext|憑}} -> 心) |
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 }}
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, {{ISBN|978-7-5619-0204-2}}
- KangXi: [http://www.kangxizidian.com/kangxi/0133.gif page 133], character 16