Radical 96 or radical jade () meaning "

jade Jade is a mineral used as jewellery or for ornaments. It is typically green, although may be yellow or white. Jade can refer to either of two different silicate minerals: nephrite (a silicate of calcium and magnesium in the amphibole group of ...

" is one of the 23

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 5 strokes. When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into consisting of four strokes. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 473 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 ...

. The variant form of this radical, , is used as the 61st indexing component in the '' Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while its original form , along with the left component variant , are listed as its associated indexing components.

Evolution

玉 (jade)

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

王 (king)

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character File:王-bronze.svg,

character File:王-silk.svg, slip script character File:王-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:王-seal.svg,

character

Derived characters

Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+7389
{{Simplified Chinese radicals 096

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