Radical 61 or radical heart () meaning "
heart" 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.
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 4
strokes.
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'', there are 1,115 characters (out of 40,000) 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 ...
.
is also the 98th indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in
mainland China. Two associated indexing components, and , are affiliated to the principal indexing component .
Evolution
File:心-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
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 on ritual bronzes such as ''zhōng'' bells and '' dǐng'' tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd mi ...
character
File:心-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:心-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.
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character
Derived characters
Literature
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*Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
See also
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Heart (Chinese medicine)
The Heart ( 心, ) is one of the zàng organs stipulated by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is a functionally defined entity and not equivalent to the anatomical organ of the same name.
In the context of the zang-fu concept
As a zàng, th ...
External links
Unihan Database - U+5FC3Full list of characters with radical 61
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
061 61 may refer to:
* 61 (number)
* one of the years 61 BC, AD 61, 1961, 2061
* In some countries, a slang name for the Cyrillic letter Ы
* '' 61*'', a 2001 American sports drama film
* "Sixty One", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Mountain ...
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