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Radical 85
Radical 85 or radical water () meaning "water" is a Kangxi radical; one of 35 of the 214 that are composed of 4 strokes. Its left-hand form, , is closely related to Radical 15, ''bīng'' (also known as 两点水 ''liǎngdiǎnshuǐ''), meaning "ice", from which it differs by the addition of just one stroke. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 1,595 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical. is also the 77th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with and being its associated indexing component. In the Chinese wuxing ("Five Phases"), 水 represents the element Water. In Taoist cosmology, 水 (Water) is the nature component of the bagua diagram ''kǎn''. Evolution File:水-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:水-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:水-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:水-seal.svg, Small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books, produces tech conferences, and provides an online learning platform. Its distinctive brand features a woodcut of an animal on many of its book covers. Company Early days The company began in 1978 as a private consulting firm doing technical writing, based in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. In 1984, it began to retain publishing rights on manuals created for Unix vendors. A few 70-page "Nutshell Handbooks" were well-received, but the focus remained on the consulting business until 1988. After a conference displaying O'Reilly's preliminary Xlib manuals attracted significant attention, the company began increasing production of manuals and books. The original cover art consisted of animal designs developed by Edie Freedman because she thought that Unix program names sounded like "weird animals". Global Network Navigator In 1993 O'Reilly Media creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Bronze Inscriptions
Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as ''zhōng'' bells and '' dǐng'' tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd millennium BC) to the Zhou dynasty (11th–3rd century BC) and even later. Early bronze inscriptions were almost always cast (that is, the writing was done with a stylus in the wet clay of the piece-mold from which the bronze was then cast), while later inscriptions were often engraved after the bronze was cast. The bronze inscriptions are one of the earliest scripts in the Chinese family of scripts, preceded by the oracle bone script. Terminology For the early Western Zhou to early Warring States period, the bulk of writing which has been unearthed has been in the form of bronze inscriptions. As a result, it is common to refer to the variety of scripts of this period as "bronze script", even though there is no single such script. The term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 5
Radical 5 or radical second () meaning "second" is one of 6 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke. However, this radical is mainly used to categorize miscellaneous characters otherwise not belonging to any radical, mainly featuring a hook or fold, and 乙 is the character with the least amount of strokes. In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system, 乙 represents the second Celestial stem (天干 ''tiāngān''). In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. In mainland China, along with other 14 associated indexing components, including , , etc., are affiliated to a new radical (), which is the 5th principal indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries.GF 0011-2009 汉字部首表 ( The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Component ) Usually, only several out of the 15 variant components are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 108
Radical 108 or radical dish () meaning " dish" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 129 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 108th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Evolution File:皿-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:皿-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:皿-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:皿-seal.svg, Small seal script character Derived characters Literature * * External links Unihan Database - U+76BF {{Simplified Chinese radicals 108 108 108 may refer to: * 108 (number) * AD 108, a year * 108 BC, a year * 108 (artist) (born 1978), Italian street artist * 108 (band), an American hardcore band * 108 (emergency telephone number), an emergency telephone number in several states in Ind ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 46
Radical 46 or radical mountain () meaning "mountain" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. It is found in the names of mountains generally in east Asia. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 636 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 39th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In Taoist cosmology, 山 (mountain) is the nature component of the bagua diagram ''gèn''. This diagram corresponds to the I Ching trigram ☶. Evolution File:山-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:山-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:山-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:山-seal.svg, Small seal script character Literature * * See also * 仙 *List of mountains in China *List of mountains in Japan *List of mountains in Korea The following is a list of mountains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 184
Radical 184 or radical eat () meaning "eat" or "food" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 403 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 185th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the simplified left component form and its traditional form listed as its associated indexing components. Evolution File:食-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:食-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:食-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:食-seal.svg, Small seal script character Derived characters Variant forms This radical character has different forms in different languages when used as an individual character and as a component. Traditionally, when used as an individual character, its third stroke is printed as either a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 30
Radical 30 or radical mouth () meaning "mouth" is one of 31 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 3 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 1,146 characters (out of 40 000) to be found under this radical. is also the 37th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Evolution File:口-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:口-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:口-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:口-seal.svg, Small seal script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty. Name ... character Derived characters Literature * *Leyi Li: "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases". Beijing 1993, External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 32
Radical 32 or radical earth () meaning "earth" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 580 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 29th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Kangxi radical 33 ( "scholar") is merged to this radical as an associated indexing component of the principal indexing component in mainland China. In the Chinese wuxing ("Five Phases"), 土 represents the element earth. Evolution File:土-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:土-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:土-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:土-seal.svg, Small seal script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 116
Radical 116 or radical cave () meaning "cave" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 117th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Evolution File:穴-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:穴-seal.svg, Small seal script character Derived characters Variant forms This radical character takes different forms in different languages. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', the first stroke is a vertical dot, and the last stroke of the radical character starts with a short horizontal line when appearing independently (), and becomes a vertical-curve-horizontal stroke when used as an upper component, with an exception of in which the radical's last stroke starts with a short horizontal line (). In Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 170
Radical 170 or radical mound () meaning "mound" or "dam" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into (counted as 3 strokes in Traditional Chinese, 2 strokes in Simplified Chinese) when used as a left component (Not to be confused with on the right derived from ). In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 348 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 175th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with (left) listed as its associated indexing component. Evolution File:阜-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:阜-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:阜-seal.svg, Small seal script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 75
Radical 75 or radical tree () meaning "tree" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 1,369 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 64th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with its alternative form being its associated indexing component. In the Chinese Wu Xing ("Five Phases"), 木 represents the element Wood. Evolution File:木-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:木-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:木-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:木-seal.svg, Small seal script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty. Nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 140
Radical 140 or radical grass () meaning "grass" is one of 29 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 6 strokes. It transforms into when appearing at the top of a character or component. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'' and in modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, (with two horizontal strokes) consists of four strokes, while in Simplified Chinese and modern Japanese, (with a continuous horizontal stroke) consists of three strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'' there are 1902 characters (out of 40,000) found under this radical, making it the most commonly used radical. , the upper component form of , is the 30th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while is listed as its associated indexing component. Evolution File:艸-seal.svg, Small seal script character Derived characters Variant forms This radical cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
