Radical 174
| 靑Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text | ||
|---|---|---|
| ||
| 靑Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text (U+9751) "blue/green" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | qīng | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄑㄧㄥ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ch'ing1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | cheng1, ching1 | |
| Jyutping: | ceng1, cing1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | セイ sei / ショウ shōCategory:Articles containing Japanese-language text (on'yomi) あお aoCategory:Articles containing Japanese-language text (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 청 cheong | |
| Hán-Việt: | thanh | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 青/あお aoCategory:Articles containing Japanese-language text | |
| Hangul: | 푸를 pureul | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
 Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text | ||
Radical 174 or radical blue (靑部/青部Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text) meaning "blue" or "green" or "black" (see Distinguishing blue from green in Chinese) is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. It is also the character representing the color ao in Japanese, a general term covering both blue and green.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
The xin zixing form, 青Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text, is the 168th 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
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 靑 (=青) 青 |
| +4 | 靓SC (=靚) 靔SC (=靝=天 -> 大) |
| +5 | 靕 靖 |
| +6 | 靗 靘 静SC (=靜) |
| +7 | 靚 |
| +8 | 靛 靜 |
| +10 | 靝 (=天 -> 大) |
Variant forms
This radical character has different forms and stroke orders in different languages and different individual characters.
靑 (lower part is 円) is used in traditional Ming typefaces as well as in the Kangxi Dictionary, but it rarely appears in handwritten scripts compared to 青.
In modern Chinese, mainland China's xin zixing (applied to chiefly Simplified Chinese, but may also be used for Traditional Chinese) and Hong Kong's List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters (Traditional Chinese) adopted 青Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text (the lower part's first stroke is vertical) that resembles the written form, while Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters (Traditional Chinese) adopted a slightly different form, 青Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text (the lower part is 月Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text with the first stroke left-falling).
In modern Japanese, jōyō kanji adopts the handwritten form 青Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text and applies it to printing typefaces, while 靑Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text is used for hyōgai kanji.
| Kangxi Dict. Japanese (hyōgai) Korean |
Mainland China Hong Kong Japanese (jōyō) |
Taiwan |
|---|---|---|
| 靑 | 青 | 青 |
Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji.[1]
References
- 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
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.
External links
