Radical 140 or radical grass () meaning "grass" is one of 29 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 6 strokes. It transforms into when appearing at the top of a character or component. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'' and in modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, (with two horizontal strokes) consists of four strokes, while in Simplified Chinese and modern Japanese, (with a continuous horizontal stroke) consists of three strokes. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'' there are 1902 characters (out of 40,000) found under this

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, making it the most commonly used radical. , the upper component form of , is the 30th indexing component in the '' Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while is listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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character

Derived characters

Variant forms

This radical character is written differently in different languages. Traditionally, breaking the horizontal stroke in 艹 is optional in both printing and written forms. The '' Kangxi Dictionary'' adopted the four-stroke form . In today's Simplified Chinese, only the three-stroke form is used; The four-stroke form is treated as an obsolete typeface form after the adoption of '' xin zixing''. In modern Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, the four-stroke form is standard, while the three-stroke form is still overwhelmingly preferred in publications. In Japanese, only the three-stroke form is used for ''

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'' (commonly used Chinese characters); the three-stroke form is recommended for ''

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 ...

'', while the four-stroke form is listed as an acceptable "design difference" in ''Hyōgai Kanji Jitaihyō'' () and JIS X 0208. In addition, is derived from the

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form of 艹. 艹-torder.gif, Standard stroke order in Taiwan Chinese 艹-order.gif, Stroke order in Simplified Chinese and Japanese

References

* KangXi:
page 1017
character 1 * Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30638 * Dae Jaweon: page 1475, character 6 * Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3172, character 1
Unihan data for U+8278
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