radical 186
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|186|uni=9999
|meaning= fragrant
|pny= xiāng
|bopo= ㄒㄧㄤ
|wade= hsiang1
|jyutping= hoeng1
|yale= heung1
|cn=
|onyomi= コウ kō/ キョウ kyō
|kunyomi= か ka / かお-る kao-ru / かおり kaori
|jp= かおり kaori
匂い香/においコウ nioikō
|hang= 향기 hyanggi
|hanja= 향 hyang
|hanviet= hương
}}
Radical 186, meaning "fragrant", is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 37 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|香}} is also the 183rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
File:香-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:香-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:香-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:香-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
| class="wikitable"
! Strokes !! Characters | |
| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|香}} |
| +4 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馚}} |
| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馛}} {{Linktext|馜}} {{Linktext|馝}} |
| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馞}} {{Linktext|馟}} {{Linktext|馠}} |
| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馡}} {{Linktext|馢}} {{Linktext|馣}} |
| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馤}} {{Linktext|馥}} |
| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馦}} {{Linktext|馧}} |
| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馨}} |
| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馩}} |
| +14 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馪}} |
| +18 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|馫}} (=馨) |
{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/香}}
Sinogram
As an isolated character 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 one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.{{Cite news|url=http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ5K4VGYJ5KUTIL02Q.html|title=小学校の必修漢字に都道府県名２０字追加 ２０年度にも|publisher=朝日新聞デジタル|date=2016-05-18|access-date=2016-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518004607/http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ5K4VGYJ5KUTIL02Q.html|archive-date=2016-05-18|url-status=live}} It was added because it is a character in 香 (Kagawa).
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 }}
External links
{{Commons category|Radical 186}}
- [https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=9999 Unihan Database - U+9999]
{{Kangxi Radicals}}
{{Simplified Chinese radicals}}