Radical 124 or radical () meaning "

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" is one of the 29

Kangxi radical The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...

s (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 220 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

radical Radical may refer to: Politics and ideology Politics *Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change *Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and ...

. is also the 147th 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 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 kno ...

character File:羽-bronze.svg,

Bronze script 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 mi ...

character File:羽-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:羽-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

Variant forms

File:羽-mingti-kangxi.svg, Traditional printing form of 羽 in the ''Kangxi Dictionary'' File:Regular Style CJKV Radical 124 (1).svg, The most common written form of 羽 in regular script File:Regular Style CJKV Radical 124 (0).svg, Regular script imitating the printing form Traditionally, this radical character is printed as and written as . In modern Chinese, both the standard printing form and writing form of this character have been altered to , though the more traditional printing form is still seen in some Traditional Chinese publication. In modern Japanese, the Kangxi form (old form) and the written form (new form) are encoded separately in JIS and Unihan (New : U+7FBD; Old : U+FA1E). The new form is used in ''

jōyō kanji The is the guide to kanji characters and their readings, announced officially by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Current ''jōyō kanji'' are those on a list of 2,136 characters issued in 2010. It is a slightly modified version of the ''tō ...

'' while the old form is used in ''

hyōgai kanji , also known as , is a term for Japanese kanji outside the two major lists of jōyō kanji, which are taught in primary and secondary school, and the jinmeiyō kanji, which are additional kanji that are officially allowed for use in personal nam ...

'', with the exception that in , and , the component is replaced by .

Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+7FBD
{{Simplified Chinese radicals 124

147 147 may refer to: * 147 (number), a natural number * AD 147, a year of the Julian calendar, in the second century * 147 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar * 147 AH, a year in the Islamic calendar that corresponds to 764 – 765 CE ...