比
Radical 81 (U+2F50)
比 (U+6BD4) "compare, compete"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:bǐ
Bopomofo:ㄅㄧˇ
Wade–Giles:pi3
Cantonese Yale:béi
Jyutping:bei2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:pí
Japanese Kana:ヒ hi (on'yomi)
くら-べる kura-beru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:비 bi
Names
Chinese name(s):(Top) 比字頭/比字头 bǐzìtóu
(Bottom) 比字底 bǐzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):並びヒ/ならびひ narabihi
比べる/くらべる kuraberu
Hangul:견줄 gyeonjul
Stroke order animation

Radical 81 or radical compare (比部) meaning "compare" or "compete" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

比 is also the 71st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0比
+2毕SC (=畢 -> 田)
+5毖 毗 毘
+6毙SC (=斃 -> 攴)
+13毚

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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