Radical 12 or radical eight (), meaning ''

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'' or ''all'', 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 two strokes. "八" is two bent lines that signal '' divide''. Eight is the single-digit number that can be divided by two the greatest number of times. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 44 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

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. is also the 11th indexing component in the '' Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. is an associated indexing component affiliated to the principal component .

Evolution

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character File:八-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:八-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:八-seal.svg,

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character

Derived characters

Variant forms

There is a design nuance in different printing typefaces for this radical. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'' and in Korean hanja, there is a short horizontal line at the beginning of the character's second stroke. This short line does not exist in most Simplified Chinese fonts used in mainland China, except for a few cases like the character as in the Emblem of the

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. It exists in most but not all Traditional Chinese fonts. In Japanese typeface, the presence of the short line depends on each typeface's design. 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 126
character 26 * Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1450 * Dae Jaweon: page 274, character 13 * Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 241, character 3

External links

Unihan data for U+516B
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