cliff
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Rock most often refers to:
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" is one of the 23 Kangxi radical
The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters
Chinese characters, also called ''hanzi'' (), are logogram
In a written language
A written language is the repres ...
s (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes
A stroke is a medical condition
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In the ''Kangxi Dictionary #REDIRECT Kangxi Dictionary#REDIRECT Kangxi Dictionary
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'', there are 129 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical
Radical may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
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*Radical (Smack album), ''Radical'' (Smack album), 1988
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is also the 7th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components ''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' () is a lexicography, lexicographic tool used to order the Chinese characters in mainland China. The specification is also known as GF 0011-2009.
In China's normative documents, "radical" is d ...
'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese
Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters
Chinese characters, also called ''hanzi'' (), are logogram
In a written language
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dictionaries published in mainland China
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, with being its associated indexing component. Though the Chinese character shares the same form as the simplified form of (''chǎng'', variant: ) which means "factory", the two are historically irrelevant in terms of meanings.
Evolution
Oracle bone script
Oracle bone script () was an ancestor of modern Chinese characters engraved on oracle bonesanimal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromancy, pyromantic divinationin the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest known form of Chinese writin ...
character
File:厂-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
The Chinese family of scripts are writing systems descended from the Chinese Oracle Bone Script
Oracle bo ...
character
File:厂-bigseal.svg, Large seal script
Large Seal script or Great Seal script () is a traditional reference to Chinese writing
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character
File:厂-seal.svg, Small seal script
Small Seal Script (Chinese language, Chinese: , ''xiǎozhuàn'') 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, t ...
character
Derived characters
Literature
* *External links
Unihan Database - U+5382
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007
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