Radical 42
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|42|uni=5C0F
|meaning=small, insignificant
|pny= xiǎo
|bopo= ㄒㄧㄠˇ
|gr= sheau
|wade= hsiao3
|jyutping= siu2
|yale= síu
|poj= siáu
|cn= (Top) 小字頭/小字头 xiǎozìtóu
|onyomi= ショウ shō
|kunyomi= ちい-さい chii-sai
|jp= 小/しょう shō
(Top) 小頭/しょうがしら shōgashira
(Top) 尚頭/なおがしら naogashira
|hang= 작을 jageul
|hanja= 소 so
}}
Radical 42 or radical small ({{Lang|zh-Hant|小部}}) meaning "small" or "insignificant" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 41 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|小}} is also the 36th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Its inversed form {{Lang|zh-Hans|⺌}} is the associated indexing component affiliated to the principal indexing component {{Lang|zh-Hans|小}}.
Evolution
File:小-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:小-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:小-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:小-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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! Strokes !! Characters | |
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|小}} |
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| +1 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尐}} {{Linktext|少}} |
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| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尒}} (={{Linktext|爾}} -> 爻) {{Linktext|尓}} (=爾) {{Linktext|尔}}SC (=爾) {{Linktext|尕}} |
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| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尖}} {{Linktext|尗}} {{Linktext|尘}}SC (={{Linktext|塵}} -> 土) {{Linktext|当}}SC/JP (=當 -> 田) |
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| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尙}}Kangxi/KO (=尚) {{Linktext|尚}} |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尛}} {{Linktext|尜}} {{Linktext|尝}}SC (={{Linktext|嘗}}/{{Linktext|嚐}} -> 口) |
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| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尞}} |
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| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尟}} {{Linktext|尠}} |
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| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|尡}} |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It 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.
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 }}
External links
{{Commons category|Radical 042}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5C0F Unihan Database - U+5C0F]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}