赤
Radical 155 (U+2F9A)
赤 (U+8D64) "red, bare"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chì
Bopomofo:ㄔˋ
Wade–Giles:ch'ih4
Cantonese Yale:chek3, chik3
Jyutping:cek3, cik3
Japanese Kana:セキ seki / シャク shaku (on'yomi)
あか aka (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:적 jeok
Names
Japanese name(s):赤/あか aka
赤偏/あかへん akahen
Hangul:붉을 bulgeul
Stroke order animation

Radical 155 or radical red (赤部) meaning "red" or "bare" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

赤 is also the 151st 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赤
+4赥 赦 赧
+6赨 赩 赪SC (=赬)
+7赫
+9赬 赭 赮
+10赯

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.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]


References

  1. 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

  • 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.
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