Radical 200 or radical hemp () meaning "

hemp Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a botanical class of ''Cannabis sativa'' cultivars grown specifically for industrial or medicinal use. It can be used to make a wide range of products. Along with bamboo, hemp is among the fastest growing plants o ...

" or "

flax Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, ''Linum usitatissimum'', in the family Linaceae. It is cultivated as a food and fiber crop in regions of the world with temperate climates. Textiles made from flax are known in ...

" is one of the 6

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 11 strokes. Historically, it is the Chinese word for cannabis. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 34 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 193rd indexing component in the '' Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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

麻-mingti-kangxi.svg, Radical 200 in the ''Kangxi Dictionary'' Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (1).svg, A variant form Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (2).svg, Standard form in Traditional Chinese Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (3).svg, Standard form in Japanese Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (4).svg, Standard form in Simplified Chinese

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 麻 is a

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 ...

, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji. It is part of taima (當麻), a Japanese word for cannabis.

References

Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+9EBB
{{Simplified Chinese radicals Kanji

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