Radical 69
{{Redirect|斤|the traditional Chinese unit of mass|Catty}}
{{short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|69|uni=65A4
|meaning=axe
|pny= jīn
|bopo= ㄐㄧㄣ
|gr= jin
|wade= chin1
|jyutping= gan1
|yale= gān
|poj= kun
|cn= 斤字旁 jīnzìpáng
|onyomi= キン kin
|kunyomi= おの ono
|jp= 斧/おの ono
斤旁/おのづくり onodzukuri
斤/きん kin
|hang= 도끼 dokki
|hanja= 근 geun
}}
Radical 69 or radical axe ({{Lang|zh-Hant|斤部}}) meaning "axe" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|斤}} is also the 85th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
It is also the measure word jin or catty, a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries in some wet markets, street markets, and shops.
Evolution
File:斤-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:斤-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:斤-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:斤-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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! Strokes !! Characters | |
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斤}} |
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| +1 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斥}} |
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| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斦}} {{Linktext|斧}} {{Linktext|斨}} {{Linktext|斩}}SC (=斬) |
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| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斪}} {{Linktext|斫}} |
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| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斬}} {{Linktext|断}}SC/JP (=斷) |
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| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斮}} {{Linktext|斯}} |
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| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|新}} {{Linktext|斱}} |
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| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斲}} |
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| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斳}} |
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| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斴}} |
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| +13 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斵}} (=斫) {{Linktext|斶}} |
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| +14 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斷}} |
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| +21 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|斸}} |
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 }}