Radical 200

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|200|uni=9EBB

|meaning= hemp, flax

|pny= má

|bopo= ㄇㄚˊ

|wade= ma2

|jyutping= maa4

|yale= ma4

|cn=

|onyomi= マ ma / バ ba

|kunyomi= あさ asa

|jp= 麻/あさ asa
麻冠/あさかんむり asakanmuri

|hang= 삼 sam

|hanja= 마 ma

|hanviet= ma, mà, mơ

}}

Radical 200 or radical hemp ({{Lang|zh-Hant|麻部}}) meaning "hemp" or "flax" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes. Historically, it is the Chinese word for cannabis.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|麻}} is also the 193rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

File:麻-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

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

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

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

+0style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|麻}}
+3style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|麼}} {{Linktext|麽}} (=麼)
+4style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|麾}}
+7style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|麿}}
+8style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黀}}
+9style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黁}}
+13style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黂}} (=𪎰)

{{Further|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/麻}}

Variant forms

麻-mingti-kangxi.svg|Radical 200 in the Kangxi Dictionary

Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (1).svg|A variant form

Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (2).svg|Standard form in Traditional Chinese

Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (3).svg|Standard form in Japanese

Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (4).svg|Standard form in Simplified Chinese

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 麻 is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.{{Cite web |title=KANJI-Link |url=http://www.kanji-link.com/en/kanji/grade/ |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=www.kanji-link.com |language=en}} It is part of taima (大麻), a Japanese word for cannabis.

See also

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 }}