Radical 200
Radical 200 or radical hemp (麻部) meaning "hemp" or "flax" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes. Historically, it is the Chinese word for cannabis.
| 麻 | ||
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| 麻 (U+9EBB) "hemp, flax" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | má | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄇㄚˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ma2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | ma4 | |
| Jyutping: | maa4 | |
| Japanese Kana: | マ ma / バ ba (on'yomi) あさ asa (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 마 ma | |
| Hán-Việt: | ma, mà, mơ | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 麻/あさ asa 麻冠/あさかんむり asakanmuri | |
| Hangul: | 삼 sam | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
麻 is also the 193rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Variant forms
Radical 200 in the Kangxi Dictionary.svg.png.webp)
A variant form.svg.png.webp)
Standard form in Traditional Chinese.svg.png.webp)
Standard form in Japanese.svg.png.webp)
Standard form in Simplified Chinese
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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