Radical 34 or radical go () meaning "
go" is one of the 31
Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three
strokes
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.
In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary
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'', there are 11 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this
radical.
Note that in
Traditional Chinese
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, radical 34 (, go) and
radical 35 (, go slowly) are slightly different, with the right-falling stroke in (radical 35, go slowly) crossing the first stroke, while that in (radical 34, go) does not. Since there is no commonly used modern Traditional Chinese character under radical 34, this radical is omitted in some Traditional Chinese dictionaries. In addition, the most common graphic form of
radical 66
Radical 66 or radical rap () meaning "" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. It is also used to represent a folding chair.
In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 296 characters (out of 49,030) to be fo ...
(
攴, rap; hit) when it appears on the right side of a compound character (攵) is also very similar graphically.
In
Simplified Chinese
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and
xin zixing
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, and were officially unified as (go), which then became the 44th indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components ''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' () is a 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 defined as any ...
'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in
mainland China
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. No associated indexing component was left after the merger.
Evolution
File:夂-seal.svg, ''Shuowen'' seal script
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character
Derived characters
Literature
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External links
Unihan Database - U+5902
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