Radical 168

Radical 168 or radical long (長部) meaning "long" or "grow" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

長
Radical 168 (U+2FA7)
長 (U+9577) "long, grow"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:cháng
Bopomofo:ㄔㄤˊ
Wade–Giles:ch'ang2
Cantonese Yale:cheung4, jeung2
Jyutping:coeng4, zoeng2
Japanese Kana:チョウ chō / ジョウ jō (on'yomi)
なが-い naga-i (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:부 jang
Hán-Việt:trường, trưởng, tràng
Names
Japanese name(s):長い/ながい nagai
Hangul:길장 gil
Stroke order animation
Stroke order of the simplified form 长

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

长, the simplified form of 長, is the 83rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with a variant form 镸 and the traditional form 長 listed as its associated indexing components.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0長 镸 长SC (=長)
+3镹
+4镺
+5镻
+8镼
+12镽
+14镾

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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