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Radical 142
Radical 142 or radical insect () meaning "insect" or "worm" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 1067 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 131st indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. The character models a worm. To derive from this, characters meaning creeping animals such as reptiles, insects, worms, amphibians, and shellfish are included in this radical. The character 虫 is used as the simplified form of 蟲 in Simplified Chinese and Japanese and occasionally in Traditional Chinese. Evolution File:虫-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:虫-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:虫-seal.svg, Small seal script character Derived characters Literature * External links Unihan Database - U+866B {{Simplified Chinese ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insect
Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Their blood is not totally contained in vessels; some circulates in an open cavity known as the haemocoel. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms. The total number of extant species is estimated at between six and ten million; In: potentially over 90% of the animal life forms on Earth are insects. Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, which are dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans, which recent research has indicated insects are nested within. Nearly all insects hatch from eggs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oracle Bone Script
Oracle bone script () is an ancient form of Chinese characters that were engraved on oracle bonesanimal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination. Oracle bone script was used in the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest known form of Chinese writing. The vast majority of oracle bone inscriptions, of which about 150,000 pieces have been discovered, were found at the Yinxu site located in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province. The latest significant discovery is the Huayuanzhuang storage of 1,608 pieces, 579 of which were inscribed, found near Xiaotun in 1993. They record pyromantic divinations of the last nine kings of the Shang dynasty, beginning with Wu Ding, whose accession is dated by different scholars at 1250 BC or 1200 BC. Oracle bone inscriptions of Wu Ding's reign have been radiocarbon dated to 1254–1197 BC±10 years. After the Shang were overthrown by the Zhou dynasty in c. 1046 BC, divining with milfoil became more common, and a much smaller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbeville Publishing Group (Abbeville Press, Inc
Abbeville Publishing Group is an independent book publishing company specializing in fine art and illustrated books. Based in New York City, Abbeville publishes approximately 40 titles each year and has a catalogue of over 700 titles on art, architecture, design, travel, photography, parenting, and children's books. The company was founded in 1977 by Robert E. Abrams and his father Harry N. Abrams, who had previously founded the art book publishing company Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in 1949. Honors and awards bestowed upon Abbeville titles include the George Wittenborn Award for ''Art across America'' (1991). Imprints and divisions Abbeville Publishing Group's major imprint is Abbeville Press, which consists of art and illustrated books for an international readership. Abbeville Gifts is an imprint which produces desk diaries, stationery, and other printed merchandise. In 2007 the company announced the launch of Abbeville Family, a new division publishing titles for parents, child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 120
Radical 120 or radical silk () meaning "silk" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 823 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 148th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the left component forms (simp.) and (trad.) being its associated indexing components. Evolution File:糸-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:糸-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:糸-seal.svg, Small seal script character Derived characters (the simplified form of ) falls under radical 1 (). Variant forms File:いとへん.png, Traditional printing form of as a left component File:糹-order.gif, Preferred stroke order of the left component form in regular script File:纟-order.gif, Stroke order of the simplified form This radical character t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 94
Radical 94 or radical dog () meaning "dog" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 444 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 66th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component. In Japanese, 犬 is a Kanji symbol, and it's Hiragana version is "いぬ". 犬 is pronounced "ēnū". , just like most Kanji, is used in both Japanese and Chinese languages. The symbol is pronounced "quăn" in Chinese. Evolution File:犬-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:犬-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:犬-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:犬-seal.svg, Small seal script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 96
Radical 96 or radical jade () meaning "jade" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes. When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into consisting of four strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 473 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. The variant form of this radical, , is used as the 61st indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while its original form , along with the left component variant , are listed as its associated indexing components. Evolution 玉 (jade) File:玉-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:玉-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:玉-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:玉-seal.svg, Small seal script character 王 (king) File:王-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:王-bronze.svg, Bronze script cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 208 ...
Radical 208 meaning " rat" or " mouse" is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 92 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. Characters with Radical 208 Literature * * External linksUnihan Database - U+9F20 {{Kangxi Radicals 208 Year 208 ( CCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Geta (or, less frequently, year 961 ''Ab urbe condita' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical 172
Radical 172 or radical short tailed bird () meaning " small bird" or " short-tailed bird" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 233 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 174th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Evolution File:隹-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:隹-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:隹-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:隹-seal.svg, Small seal script character Derived characters Variant Forms There is a difference in Japanese and Chinese in printing typefaces for this third stroke of this radical. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'' and in Japanese, the form with a short line slanting downward to the left on top of the first horizontal line is used. In both Simplified Chinese (mainland Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Xiaozhuan, formerly romanized as Hsiao-chuan, is also known as the seal script or lesser seal script. History Before the Qin conquest of the six other major warring states of Zhou China, local styles of characters had evolved independently of one another for centuries, producing what are called the "Scripts of the Six States" (), all of which are included under the general term "great seal script". However, under one unified government, the diversity was deemed undesirable as it hindered timely communication, trade, taxation, and transportation, and as independent scripts might be used to represent dissenting political ideas. Hence, Emperor Qin Shi Huang mandated the systematic unification of weights, measures, currencies, etc., an ... [...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] |
Shellfish
Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Although most kinds of shellfish are harvested from saltwater environments, some are found in freshwater. In addition, a few species of land crabs are eaten, for example ''Cardisoma guanhumi'' in the Caribbean. Shellfish are among the most common food allergens. Despite the name, ''shellfish'' are not fish. Most shellfish are low on the food chain and eat a diet composed primarily of phytoplankton and zooplankton. Many varieties of shellfish, and crustaceans in particular, are actually closely related to insects and arachnids; crustaceans make up one of the main subphyla of the phylum Arthropoda. Molluscs include cephalopods (squids, octopuses, cuttlefish) and bivalves (clams, oysters), as well as gastropods (aquatic species such as whelks and winkles; land species such as snails and slugs). M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worm
Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms); for the African giant earthworm, ''Microchaetus rappi''; and for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm), ''Lineus longissimus''. Various types of worm occupy a small variety of parasitic niches, living inside the bodies of other animals. Free-living worm species do not live on land but instead live in marine or freshwater environments or underground by burrowing. In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon, ''vermes'', used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic. The name stems from the Old English word ''wyrm''. Most animals called "worms" are invertebrates, but the term is also used for the amphibian caecilians and the slowworm '' A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
