Radical 91

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|91|uni=7247

|meaning=slice

|pny= piàn

|bopo= ㄆㄧㄢˋ

|wade= p'ien4

|jyutping= pin3

|yale= pin

|poj= phiàn

|cn= 片字旁 piànzìpáng

|onyomi= ヘン hen

|kunyomi= かた kata

|jp= 片/かた kata
片偏/かたへん katahen

|hang= 조각 jogak

|hanja= 편 pyeon

}}

Radical 91 or radical slice ({{Lang|zh-Hans|片部}}) meaning "slice" or "film" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 77 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|片}} is also the 84th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Variant forms

This radical character takes different forms in Taiwan and in other regions. In Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters, the second (vertical) stroke and the third (horizontal) stroke share the same ending point, while in other standards, the second stroke ends at the middle of the third stroke.

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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 fifth 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 }}