| 舌 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 舌 (U+820C) "tongue" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shé | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕㄜˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | she2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sit6 | |
| Jyutping: | sit6, sit3 | |
| Japanese Kana: | セツ setsu / ゼチ zechi (on'yomi) した shita (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 설 seol | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Left) 舌字旁 shézìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 舌/した shita | |
| Hangul: | 혀 hyeo | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 135 or radical tongue (舌部) meaning "tongue" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 31 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
舌 is also the 134th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 舌 |
| +2 | 舍 舎JP (=舍) 舏 |
| +4 | 舐 |
| +5 | 舑 |
| +6 | 舒 |
| +8 | 舓 (=舐) 舔 舕 |
| +9 | 舖 (=鋪 -> 金) 舗 |
| +10 | 舘 (=館 -> 食) |
| +12 | 舙 (=話 -> 言 / 咠 -> 口) |
| +13 | 舚 |
Variant forms
In the Kangxi Dictionary and in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, this radical character begins with a horizontal stroke, while in other languages, it begins with a left-falling stroke.
| Kangxi Dictionary Modern Trad. Chinese |
Simp. Chinese Japanese Korean |
|---|---|
| 舌 | 舌 |
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 fifth grade kanji.[1]
References
- 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.
- 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.
