Radical 48
{{Short description|Kangxi radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
| 48
| uni = 5DE5
| meaning = work
| pny = gōng
| bopo = ㄍㄨㄥ
| wade = kung1
| jyutping = gung1
| yale = gūng
| poj = kong
| cn = 工字旁 gōngzìpáng
| onyomi = コウ kō
| kunyomi = たくみ takumi
| jp = 工/こう kō
工/たくみ takumi
工偏/たくみへん takumihen
エ/え e
| hang = 장인 jang'in
| hanja = 공 gong
| gr =
| Meaning =
}}
Radical 48 or radical work ({{Lang|zh-Hant|工部}}) meaning "work" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|工}} is also the 28th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:工-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:工-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:工-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:工-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|工}} |
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| +2 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|左}} {{Linktext|巧}} {{Linktext|巨}} |
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| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巩}} (also SC form of {{Linktext|鞏}} -> Radical 177) {{Linktext|巪}}KO |
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| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巫}} |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|差|lang=zh-Hans}}SC variant |
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| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|差|lang=ja}}TC/JP/KO variant |
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| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巯}}SC (=巰) |
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| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|巰}} |
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 second 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 048}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5DE5 Unihan Database - U+5DE5]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}