Radical 90

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|90|uni=723F

|meaning=half of tree trunk

|pny= qiáng

|bopo= ㄑㄧㄤˊ

|wade= ch'iang2

|jyutping= coeng4

|yale= chèuhng

|poj= chiông

|cn=

|onyomi= ショウ shō

|kunyomi= だい dai

|jp= 爿偏/しょうへん shōhen

|hang= 조각널 jogak neol

|hanja= 장 jang

}}

Radical 90 or radical half tree trunk ({{Lang|zh-Hant|爿部}}) meaning "half of a tree trunk" or "split wood" is 1 of 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 48 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, {{Lang|zh-Hans|爿}} is listed as the associated indexing component under the 45th principal indexing component {{Linktext|丬|lang=zh-Hans}}. However, the character {{Lang|zh-Hans|爿}} itself and {{Lang|zh-Hans|爿}} as in some other characters (e.g. {{Lang|zh-Hans|戕}}, {{Lang|zh-Hans|寐}}, etc.) are not simplified. Similar inconsistency can also be found in Japanese shinjitai.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

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! Strokes !! Characters

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| +0

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|爿}} {{Linktext|丬}}Component only
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| +4

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|牀}}
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| +5

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|牁}}
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| +6

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|牂}}
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| +9

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|牃}}
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| +10

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|牄}}
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| +11

style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|牅}}
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| +13

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

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 }}