Radical 24 or radical ten () meaning
ten, complete, or
perfect is one of 23 of the 214
Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2
strokes
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In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary
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'', there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this
radical.
is also the 6th indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components ''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' () is a lexicographic tool used to order the Chinese characters in mainland China. The specification is also known as GF 0011-2009.
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Simplified Chinese
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Mathematics
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* Simplification of algebraic expressions, ...
dictionaries published in
mainland China
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Evolution
File:十-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script
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character
File:十-bronze.svg, Bronze script character
File:十-bigseal.svg, Large seal script
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character
File:十-seal.svg, Small seal script character
is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now /针), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape.
Derived characters
Literature
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*Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
* KangXi
page 155 character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
* Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9
See also
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Cross
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External links
Unihan data for U+5341
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006
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