Radical 131

Radical 131 or radical minister (臣部) meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

臣
Radical 131 (U+2F82)
臣 (U+81E3) "minister, official"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chén
Bopomofo:ㄔㄣˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:chern
Wade–Giles:chʽên2
Cantonese Yale:sàhn
Jyutping:san4
Japanese Kana:シン shin / ジン jin (on'yomi)
おみ omi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:신 sin
Names
Japanese name(s):臣/しん shin
Hangul:신하 sinha
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

臣 is also the 125th 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臣
+2臤 臥
+6臦
+8臧
+11臨 臩

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.
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