Radical 45
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|45|uni=5C6E
|meaning=sprout
|pny= chè
|bopo= ㄔㄜˋ
|wade= ch'e4
|jyutping= cit3
|yale= chit
|poj= tia̍t
|onyomi= テツ tetsu
|kunyomi= ひだり hidari
|jp= 屮/てつ tetsu
芽生え/めばえ mebae
|hang= 풀, 싹날 pul, ssak nal
|hanja= 철 cheol
}}
Radical 45 or radical sprout ({{Lang|zh-Hant|屮部}}) is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 38 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|屮}} is also the 55th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:屮-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:屮-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:屮-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屮}} |
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| +1 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屯}} |
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| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|屰}} |
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 }}