Radical 97
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|97|uni=74DC
|meaning=melon
|pny= guā
|bopo= ㄍㄨㄚ
|wade= kua1
|jyutping= gwaa1
|yale= gwā
|cn= 瓜字旁 guāzìpáng
|onyomi= カ ka
|kunyomi= うり uri
|jp= 瓜/うり uri
|hang= 오이 oi
|hanja= 과 gwa
}}
Radical 97 or radical melon ({{Lang|zh-Hant|瓜部}}) meaning "melon" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes (6 strokes in Japanese).
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|瓜}} is also the 113th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Derived characters
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! Strokes !! Characters | |
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓜}} |
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| +3 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓝}} |
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| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓞}} {{Linktext|瓟}} |
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| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓠}} |
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| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓡}} |
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| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓢}} |
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| +14 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓣}} |
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| +17 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓤}} |
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| +19 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|瓥}} |
Variant forms
There is a design nuance between the form of {{Lang|zh-Hant|瓜}} in modern Japanese and in other languages. Traditionally, the character consists of five strokes. In Japanese kanji simplification, however, the third stroke (i.e. a vertical-horizontal turning stroke) was broken into two strokes, and {{Lang|ja|瓜}} became a six-stroke radical character. This change also applies to hyōgai kanji.
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| Chinese (Mainland China) ! Chinese ! Modern Japanese |
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| style="font-size:6em; font-family:serif; line-height:100%;"
| lang="zh-cn"|瓜 | lang="zh-tw"|瓜 | lang="ja"|瓜 |
| style="font-size:6em; font-family:serif; line-height:100%;"
| lang="zh-cn"|瓞 | lang="zh-tw"|瓞 | lang="ja"|瓞 |
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 }}