Radical 15 or radical ice (), meaning

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, is one of 23 of the 214

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s that are composed of 2

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. In the ''

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'', there are 115 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

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. is also the 18th indexing component in the ''

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'' predominantly adopted by

Simplified Chinese Simplification, Simplify, or Simplified may refer to: Mathematics Simplification is the process of replacing a mathematical expression by an equivalent one, that is simpler (usually shorter), for example * Simplification of algebraic expressions, ...

dictionaries published in

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Evolution

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character Note that in modern

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, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, radical ice in some characters (e.g. , ) is now written as two dots. Their original forms are retained in Korean hanja and some old Traditional Chinese typefaces (e.g. , ).

Derived characters

In both

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database and mainland China's standard,GB13000.1字符集汉字部首归部规范 ''Specification for Identifying Indexing Components of GB 13000.1 Chinese Characters Set'' the

Simplified Chinese character Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters used in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore, as prescribed by the ''Table of General Standard Chinese Characters''. Along with traditional Chinese characters, they are one o ...

(=) falls under radical second (Unihan: , China: or its variant form ) instead of radical ice.

Literature

* *Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, * KangXi:
page 131
character 15 * Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1607 * Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 11 * Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 295, character 1

References

External links

Unihan Database - U+51AB
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