Radical 193 or radical cauldron (鬲部) meaning "cauldron" or "tripod" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 73 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
鬲 is also the 189th 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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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 鬲 |
+6 | 鬳 |
+7 | 鬴 |
+8 | 鬵 鬶SC (=鬹) |
+9 | 鬷 |
+10 | 鬸 |
+11 | 鬹 鬺 |
+12 | 鬻 |
Variant forms
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Standard form in Japanese and Korean
Alternative form in Traditional Chinese -
Standard form in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
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Alternative form
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.