Radical 166

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{redirect|里|the unit of distance|Li (unit)}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|166|uni=91CC

|meaning= village, li (distance unit)

|pny= lǐ

|bopo= ㄌㄧˇ

|wade= li3

|jyutping= lei5

|yale= lei5

|cn=

|onyomi= リ ri

|kunyomi= さと sato

|jp= 里/さと sato
(Left) 里偏/さとへん satohen

|hang= 마을 maeul

|hanja= 리 ri

|hanviet= lý, lí

}}

Radical 166 or radical village ({{Lang|zh-Hant|里部}}) meaning "village" or "li" (a traditional Chinese unit of distance) is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 14 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|里}} is also the 157th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Simplified Chinese, {{Linktext|裏}} or {{Linktext|裡}} which mean "inside" is merged to {{Lang|zh-Hans|里}}.

Evolution

File:里-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

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

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

+0style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|里}} (also SC form of {{Linktext|裏}}/{{Linktext|裡}} -> )
+2style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|重}}
+4style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|野}}
+5style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|量}}
+11style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|釐}}

{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/里}}

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 second 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 }}