香
Radical 186 (U+2FB9)
香 (U+9999) "fragrant"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:xiāng
Bopomofo:ㄒㄧㄤ
Wade–Giles:hsiang1
Cantonese Yale:heung1
Jyutping:hoeng1
Japanese Kana:コウ kō/ キョウ kyō (on'yomi)
か ka / かお-る kao-ru / かおり kaori (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:향 hyang
Hán-Việt:hương
Names
Japanese name(s):かおり kaori
匂い香/においコウ nioikō
Hangul:향기 hyanggi
Stroke order animation

Radical 186, meaning "fragrant", is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 37 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

香 is also the 183rd 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香
+4馚
+5馛 馜 馝
+7馞 馟 馠
+8馡 馢 馣
+9馤 馥
+10馦 馧
+11馨
+12馩
+14馪
+18馫 (=馨)

Kanji

As an isolated character is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1]

It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.[2] It was added because it is a character in 香 (Kagawa).[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  2. 1 2 "小学校の必修漢字に都道府県名20字追加 20年度にも". 朝日新聞デジタル. 2016-05-18. Archived from the original on 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

Literature

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