Radical 24

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|24|uni=5341

|meaning= ten

|pny= shí

|bopo= ㄕˊ

|gr= shyr

|wade= shih2

|jyutping= sap6

|yale= sahp

|poj= cha̍p (col.)
si̍p (lit.)

|onyomi= ジュウ jū

|kunyomi= と to / とお tō

|jp= 十偏 jūhen

|hang= 열 yeol

|hanja= 십 sip

|hanviet= thập

}}

Radical 24 or radical ten ({{Lang|zh-Hant|十部}}) meaning ten, complete, or perfect, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|十}} is also the 6th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

File:十-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character

File:十-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

File:十-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character

File:十-seal.svg|Small seal script character

{{Linktext|十}} is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now {{Linktext|針}}/针), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape.

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|十}}
+1style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卂}} {{Linktext|千}} {{Linktext|卄}}
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| +2

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卅}} {{Linktext|卆}}JP nonstandard (=卒) {{Linktext|升}} {{Linktext|午}}
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| +3

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卉}} {{Linktext|半}}
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| +4

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卋}} (={{Linktext|世}} -> ) {{Linktext|卌}} {{Linktext|卍}} {{Linktext|华}}SC (={{Linktext|華}} -> ) {{Linktext|协}}SC (=協) {{Linktext|卐}} {{Linktext|毕}}SC (={{Linktext|畢}} -> )
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|丧}}SC (={{Linktext|喪}} -> ) {{Linktext|卑}} {{Linktext|卒}} {{Linktext|卓}} {{Linktext|協}} {{Linktext|单}}SC (={{Linktext|單}} -> ) {{Linktext|卖}}SC (={{Linktext|賣}} -> )
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| +7

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|南}}
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| +8

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|単}}
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卙}}
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| +10

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|博}}
+19style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|卛}} {{Linktext|颦}}SC (={{Linktext|顰}} -> )

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 }}
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, {{ISBN|978-7-5619-0204-2}}
  • KangXi: [http://www.kangxizidian.com/kangxi/0155.gif page 155], character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
  • Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9

See also