Radical 100

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]

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

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

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.

References

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