Radical 82 or radical fur () meaning "
fur" is one of the 34
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 (214 radicals in total) composed of 4
strokes.
In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 211 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 ...
.
is also the 82nd indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in
mainland China.
The character is a
Chinese family name, and often refers to the Chinese leader
Mao Zedong.
Evolution
File:毛-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:毛-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:毛-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
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent
Chinese character. It is one of the
Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
It is a second grade kanji.
References
Literature
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External links
Unihan Database - U+6BDB
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
Kyōiku kanji
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