Radical 173
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|173|uni=96E8
|meaning= rain
|pny= yǔ
|bopo= ㄩˇ
|wade= yü3
|jyutping= jyu5, jyu6
|yale= yu5
|cn= 雨字頭/雨字头 yǔzìtóu
|onyomi= ウ u
|kunyomi= あめ ame
|hang= 비 bi
|hanja= 우 u
|hanviet= vũ
}}
Radical 173 or radical rain ({{Lang|zh-Hant|雨部}}) meaning "rain" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into {{Lang|zh-Hant|⻗}} when used as an upper component.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|雨}} is also the 170th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the component form {{Lang|zh-Hans|⻗}} listed as its associated indexing component.
Evolution
File:雨-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:雨-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:雨-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:雨-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
| class="wikitable"
! Strokes !! Characters | |
| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|雨}} |
| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|雩}} {{Linktext|雪}} {{Linktext|雫}} |
| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|雬}} {{Linktext|雭}} {{Linktext|雮}} {{Linktext|雯}} {{Linktext|雰}} {{Linktext|雱}} {{Linktext|雲}} {{Linktext|雳}}SC (=靂) |
| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|雴}} {{Linktext|雵}} {{Linktext|零}} {{Linktext|雷}} {{Linktext|雸}} {{Linktext|雹}} {{Linktext|雺}} {{Linktext|電}} {{Linktext|雼}} {{Linktext|雽}} {{Linktext|雾}}SC (=霧) |
| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|雿}} {{Linktext|需}} {{Linktext|霁}}SC (=霽) |
| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|霂}} {{Linktext|霃}} {{Linktext|霄}} {{Linktext|霅}} {{Linktext|霆}} {{Linktext|震}} {{Linktext|霈}} {{Linktext|霉}}SC (also SC form of {{Linktext|黴}} -> 黑) {{Linktext|霊}}JP (=靈) |
| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|霋}} {{Linktext|霌}} {{Linktext|霍}} {{Linktext|霎}} {{Linktext|霏}} {{Linktext|霐}} {{Linktext|霑}} {{Linktext|霒}} (=𩃬) {{Linktext|霓}} {{Linktext|霔}} {{Linktext|霕}} {{Linktext|霖}} {{Linktext|霗}} (=零) |
| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|霘}} {{Linktext|霙}} {{Linktext|霚}} (=霧) {{Linktext|霛}} (=靈) {{Linktext|霜}} {{Linktext|霝}} {{Linktext|霞}} {{Linktext|霟}} {{Linktext|霠}} |
| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|霡}}SC (=霢) {{Linktext|霢}} {{Linktext|霣}} {{Linktext|霤}} {{Linktext|霥}} |
| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|霦}} {{Linktext|霧}} {{Linktext|霨}} {{Linktext|霩}} {{Linktext|霪}} {{Linktext|霫}} {{Linktext|霬}} {{Linktext|霭}}SC (=靄) |
| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|霮}} {{Linktext|霯}} {{Linktext|霰}} {{Linktext|霱}} {{Linktext|露}} {{Linktext|霳}} {{Linktext|霴}} |
| +13 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|霵}} {{Linktext|霶}} {{Linktext|霷}} {{Linktext|霸}} {{Linktext|霹}} {{Linktext|霺}} (={{Linktext|溦}} -> 水) {{Linktext|霻}} |
| +14 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|霼}} {{Linktext|霽}} {{Linktext|霾}} {{Linktext|霿}} {{Linktext|靀}} (={{Linktext|濛}} -> 水) |
| +15 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靁}} (=雷) |
| +16 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靂}} {{Linktext|靃}} {{Linktext|靄}} {{Linktext|靅}} {{Linktext|靆}} {{Linktext|靇}} {{Linktext|靈}} |
| +17 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靉}} |
| +18 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靊}} |
| +19 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靋}} {{Linktext|靌}} (={{Linktext|寶}} -> 宀) {{Linktext|靍}} (={{Linktext|鶴}} -> 鳥) {{Linktext|靎}} |
| +21 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靏}} |
| +31 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|靐}} |
{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/雨}}
Variant forms
This radical is printed and written differently in modern Traditional Chinese than in other languages. In Chinese as used in Mainland China (whether Simplified or Traditional) and Japanese, the four dots in the character are almost identical, while in modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the four dots point inwards to the center of the character, despite the former form is also widely used in Traditional Chinese publications.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Printing forms ! Japanese ! Mainland China ! Taiwan, Hong Kong |
| style="font-size:4em;font-family:serif;line-height:100%;"
| lang="ja"|雨 雲 | lang="zh-cn"|雨 雲 | lang="zh-tw"|雨 雲 |
Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (0).svg|Independent character as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese
Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (1).svg|Independent character as used in Traditional Chinese
Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (3).svg|Component form as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese
Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (5).svg|Component form as used in Simplified Chinese and Japanese (alternative)
Regular Style CJKV Radical 173 (4).svg|Component form as used in Traditional Chinese
Sinogram
This character 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 first grade kanji.
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 }}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Radical 173}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=96E8 Unihan Database - U+96E8]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}