heart
The heart is a muscular
MUSCULAR (DS-200B), located in the United Kingdom
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" is one of 34 of the 214 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 that are composed of 4 strokes
A stroke is a medical condition
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure
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When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into , which consists of three strokes. When appearing at the bottom, it sometimes transforms into .
In the ''Kangxi Dictionary #REDIRECT Kangxi Dictionary#REDIRECT Kangxi Dictionary
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'', there are 1,115 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical
Radical may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
*Radical (mixtape), ''Radical'' (mixtape), by Odd Future, 2010
*Radical (Smack album), ''Radical'' (Smack album), 1988
*"Radicals", a song by Tyler, The Creator from the 2011 album ''Goblin (album ...
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is also the 98th 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
A written language is the representation of a spoken or gestural language by ...
dictionaries published in mainland China
The term "mainland China" refers to the area directly governed by the People's Republic of China
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. Two associated indexing components, and , are affiliated to the principal indexing component .
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:心-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:心-bigseal.svg, Large seal script
Large Seal script or Great Seal script () is a traditional reference to Chinese writing
Written Chinese () comprises Chinese characters used to represent the Chinese language. Chinese characters do not constitute an alphabet or a compact syllab ...
character
File:心-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
* *Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,See also
* Heart (Chinese medicine)External links
Unihan Database - U+5FC3
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