Radical 168
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|168|uni=9577
|meaning= long, grow
|pny= cháng
|bopo= ㄔㄤˊ
|wade= ch'ang2
|jyutping= coeng4, zoeng2
|yale= cheung4, jeung2
|cn=
|onyomi= チョウ chō / ジョウ jō
|kunyomi= なが-い naga-i
|jp= 長い/ながい nagai
|hang= 길장 gil
|hanja= 부 jang
|hanviet= trường, trưởng, tràng
}}
Radical 168 or radical long ({{Lang|zh-Hant|長部}}) meaning "long" or "{{Linktext|grow}}" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|长}}, the simplified form of {{Lang|zh-Hans|長}}, is the 83rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with a variant form {{Lang|zh-Hans|镸}} and the traditional form {{Lang|zh-Hans|長}} listed as its associated indexing components.
Evolution
File:長-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:長-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:長-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
| class="wikitable"
! Strokes !! Characters | |
| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|長}} {{Linktext|镸}} {{Linktext|长}}SC (=長) |
| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|镹}} |
| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|镺}} |
| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|镻}} |
| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|镼}} |
| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|镽}} |
| +14 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|镾}} |
{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/長}}
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 長 is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is taught in second grade.{{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}}
{{Wiktionary|長}}
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= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}
External links
{{Commons category|Radical 168}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=9577 Unihan Database - U+9577]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}