Radical 58 or radical snout (彐部) meaning "pig snout" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 25 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
彐 is also the 50 indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, ⺕ and 彑, are affiliated to the principal indexing component 彐.
Evolution
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 彐 彑 |
+2 | 归SC(=歸 -> 止) |
+3 | 当SC/JP(=當 -> 田) |
+5 | 彔 录SC (= 錄 -> 金 / 彔) |
+6 | 彖 |
+7 | 兼 |
+8 | 彗 |
+9 | 彘 |
+10 | 彙 彚 (=彙) |
+13 | 彛 (=彝) 彜 (=彝) |
+15 | 彝 彞 (=彝) |
+19 | 彟SC (=彠) |
+23 | 彠 |
Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.