Radical 186

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

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

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)

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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