is a
Chinese character
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represent the only on ...
encountered in
East Asian
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languages. It was grouped with as
Radical 96
Radical 96 or radical jade () meaning " jade" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
When appearing at the left side of a Chinese character, the radical transforms into consisting of four strokes.
In ...
in the
''Kangxi'' radicals.
It may also refer to:
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king
King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ...
s, in reference to non-Chinese states
* the early
Chinese sovereigns of the
Xia,
Shang
The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dyn ...
, and
Zhou dynasties
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Historians ...
(sometimes titled "emperor" in translation)
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prince
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s of the later dynasties
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Wang (surname)
Wang () is the pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the common Chinese surname (''Wáng''). It has a mixture of various origin with uncertain lineage of family history, however it is currently the list of common Chinese surnames, mo ...
, a Chinese surname
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Oh (Japanese surname)
Wang () is the pinyin romanization of the common Chinese surname (''Wáng''). It has a mixture of various origin with uncertain lineage of family history, however it is currently the most common surname in Mainland China, one of the most comm ...
, a Japanese surname
* a
Khitan small script
The Khitan small script () was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language. It was used during the 10th–12th century by the Khitan people, who had created the Liao Empire in present-day northeastern China. In addition to ...
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