Radical 203

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|203|uni=9ED1

|meaning= black

|pny= hēi

|bopo= ㄏㄟ

|wade= hei1

|jyutping= haak1, hak1

|yale= haak1, hak1

|cn=

|onyomi= コク koku

|kunyomi= くろ kuro / くろ-い kuro-i

|jp= 黒/くろ kuro

|hang= 검을 geomeu

|hanja= 흑 heuk

|hanviet= hắc

}}

Radical 203 or radical black ({{Lang|zh-Hant|黑部}}) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|黑}} is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

This radical character is simplified as {{Lang|ja|黒}} in Japanese jōyō kanji.

Evolution

File:黑-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:黑-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

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

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

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

+0style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黑}} {{Linktext|黒}}JP (=黑)
+3style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|墨|lang=zh}}SC/TC/KO/{{Linktext|墨|lang=ja}}JP {{Linktext|黓}}
+4style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黔}} {{Linktext|黕}} {{Linktext|黖}} {{Linktext|黗}} {{Linktext|默}}
+5style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黚}} {{Linktext|黛}} {{Linktext|黜}} {{Linktext|黝}} {{Linktext|點}}
+6style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黟}} {{Linktext|黠}} {{Linktext|黡}}SC (=黶)
+7style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黢}} {{Linktext|黣}}
+8style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黤}} {{Linktext|黥}} {{Linktext|黦}} {{Linktext|黧}} {{Linktext|黨}} {{Linktext|黩}}SC (=黷) {{Linktext|黪}}SC (=黲)
+9style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黫}} {{Linktext|黬}} {{Linktext|黭}} {{Linktext|黮}} {{Linktext|黯}}
+10style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黰}} {{Linktext|黱}}
+11style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黲}} {{Linktext|黳}} {{Linktext|黴}}
+13style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黵}}
+14style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黶}}
+15style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黷}}
+16style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|黸}}

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

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 }}