生
Radical 100 (U+2F63)
生 (U+751F) "life"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shēng
Bopomofo:ㄕㄥ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:sheng
Wade–Giles:shêng1
Cantonese Yale:sāang
Jyutping:saang1
Japanese Kana:セイ sei / ショウ shō (on'yomi)
い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:생 saeng
Names
Japanese name(s):いきる ikiru
うまれる umareru
せい sei
しょう shō
Hangul:날 nal
Stroke order animation

Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.[1]

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

生 is also the 109th 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生
+4甠
+5甡
+6產 産
+7甤 甥 甦
+9甧


Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[2] It is a first grade kanji[2]

The character alone is present in the phrase Worship of the living


References

  1. ↑ "Unihan data for Unihan data for U+751F". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
  2. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.