Radical 127 or radical plough () meaning "
plough
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" is one of the 29
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 6
strokes.
In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 84 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 122nd indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in
mainland China.
Evolution
File:耒-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:耒-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:耒-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
Variant forms
Traditionally, the first stroke of this radical character is a right-to-left slash. In Simplified Chinese ''
xin zixing'', it becomes a horizontal stroke. A similar change was also applied to Japanese ''
jōyō kanji
The is the guide to kanji characters and their readings, announced officially by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Current ''jōyō kanji'' are those on a list of 2,136 characters issued in 2010. It is a slightly modified version of the ''tō ...
'', while ''
hyōgai kanji
, also known as , is a term for Japanese kanji outside the two major lists of jōyō kanji, which are taught in primary and secondary school, and the jinmeiyō kanji, which are additional kanji that are officially allowed for use in personal nam ...
'' remain unchanged.
Literature
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References
External links
Unihan Database - U+8012
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
127 127 may refer to:
*127 (number), a natural number
*AD 127, a year in the 2nd century AD
*127 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
*127 (band), an Iranian band
See also
*List of highways numbered 127
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122 122 may refer to:
*122 (number), a natural number
* AD 122, a year in the 2nd century AD
* 122 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
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*"One Twenty Two", a 2022 single by the American rock band Bo ...