Radical 11 or radical enter () meaning "enter", "come in (to)", "join" is one of 23 of the 214
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 that are composed of 2
strokes.
In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 28 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 ...
.
In
Simplified Chinese, this radical is affiliated to
radical 9 (Radical man, ), and many Chinese characters formerly consisted of were adjusted and fell under radical man. While most Japanese dictionaries keep radical 11 as an independent radical, similar adjustments also happened in
Japanese kanji simplification.
Evolution
入-oracle.svg, 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
入-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
入-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
入-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
There is a design nuance in different printing typefaces for this radical. Traditionally, the second stroke starts with short horizontal line in printing typeface. In handwriting form, the right-falling stroke goes more smoothly. The traditional typeface design is used in modern
Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typefaces. In
Mainland China, after the adoption of
Simplified Chinese and the
new character forms, the standard printing typeface design for was altered to look like its handwriting form. Depending on each font's design, either form could be used in Traditional Chinese typefaces and Simplified Chinese typefaces.
The short horizontal line exists only in printing typeface, not in any handwriting form.
Literature
*
*Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
* KangXi:
page 125 character 32
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1415
* Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 102, character 1
* Dae Jaweon: page 266, character 18
External links
Unihan data for U+5165
{{Kangxi Radicals
011
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