Radical 102 or radical field () meaning "
field" is number 102 out of 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. It is one of the 23 radicals composed of 5
strokes. With 192 signs derived from this character in the ''
Kangxi Dictionary'', it has a frequency somewhat below average.
is also the 106th indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in
mainland China.
The character is a pictograph of a rice field with irrigation channels. There are several variants of the radical, which may also have other meanings. Signs derived from this character mostly belong to the agricultural sphere, such as , a unit of area, , a field worker, or "cattle".
Evolution
File:田-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:田-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:田-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:田-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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Derived characters
In
Chinese astrology, represents the ninth
Earthly Branch and corresponds to the
Monkey
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...
in
the
Chinese zodiac. In other signs such as "coin", the radical has merely phonetic significance. In other cases, it is present due to assimilation of a similar but originally distinct radical, as in "stomach". In the ancient
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...
cyclic character numeral system ''tiāngān'', represents the first
Celestial stem.
Literature
*
*Leyi Li: "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases". Beijing 1993,
*Rick Harbaugh, ''Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary'', Yale University Press (1998),
External links
Unihan Database - U+7530
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
Kangxi radicals, 102
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*106 (number), the number
*AD 106, a year in the 2nd century AD
*106 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
*106 (emergency telephone number), an Australian emergency number
*106 (MBTA bus), a route of the Massachusetts Bay Transportatio ...