Radical 67

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

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{{Infobox Kangxi radical|67

| uni = 6587

| meaning = script, literature

| pny = wén

| bopo = ㄨㄣˊ

| gr = wen

| wade = wên2

| jyutping = man4, man6

| yale = màhn, mahn

| poj = bûn

| cn = (Top) 文字頭/文字头 wénzìtóu
文字旁 wénzìpáng

| onyomi = ブン bun / モン mon

| kunyomi = ふみ fumi

| jp = 文/ぶん bun
文繞/ぶんにょう bunnyō
文旁/ふみづくり fumizukuri

| hang = 글월 geurwol

| hanja = 문 mun

}}

Radical 67 or radical script ({{Lang|zh-Hant|文部}}) meaning "script" or "literature" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|文}} is also the 93rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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

File:文-bronze.svg|Bronze script character

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

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

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|文}}
+2style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|齐}}SC (={{Linktext|齊}} -> ) {{Linktext|刘}}SC (={{Linktext|劉}} -> )
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| +4

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斉}}JP (={{Linktext|齊}} -> )
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斊}} {{Linktext|斋}}SC (={{Linktext|齋}} -> )
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| +7

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斍}} (={{Linktext|覺}} -> ) {{Linktext|斎}}JP (={{Linktext|齋}} -> ) {{Linktext|斏}}
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| +8

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斌}} {{Linktext|斐}} {{Linktext|斑}}
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斒}}
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| +12

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斓}}SC (=斕)
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| +15

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斔}}
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| +17

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斕}}
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| +19

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斖}}

The Unihan Database classifies the Simplified Chinese character {{Linktext|齐|lang=zh-Hans}} and Japanese shinjitai {{Linktext|斉|lang=ja}} and {{Linktext|斎|lang=ja}} under this radical. However, {{Lang|zh-Hans|齐}} actually belongs to radical {{Lang|zh-Hans|齐 (齊)}} (Simplified Chinese characters radical #140, =Kangxi Radical 210) in mainland China's standard{{Lang|zh-cn|GB13000.1字符集汉字部首归部规范}} Specification for Identifying Indexing Components of GB 13000.1 Chinese Characters Set {{Sic}} and Simplified Chinese dictionaries; {{Lang|ja|斉}} and {{Lang|ja|斎}} usually falls under radical {{Lang|ja|斉 (齊)}} (or "{{Lang|ja|齊 (斉)}}" depending on each dictionary's standard) in Japanese dictionaries.

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 }}