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| 瓜Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text | ||
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| 瓜Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text (U+74DC) "melon" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | guā | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄚ | |
| Wade–Giles: | kua1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gwā | |
| Jyutping: | gwaa1 | |
| Japanese Kana: | カ kaCategory:Articles containing Japanese-language text (on'yomi) うり uriCategory:Articles containing Japanese-language text (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 과 gwa | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 瓜字旁 guāzìpángCategory:Articles containing Chinese-language text | |
| Japanese name(s): | 瓜/うり uriCategory:Articles containing Japanese-language text | |
| Hangul: | 오이 oi | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
 Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text | ||
Radical 97 or radical melon (瓜部Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text) meaning "melon" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes (6 strokes in Japanese).
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
瓜Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text is also the 113th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 瓜 |
| +3 | 瓝 |
| +5 | 瓞 瓟 |
| +6 | 瓠 |
| +8 | 瓡 |
| +11 | 瓢 |
| +14 | 瓣 |
| +17 | 瓤 |
| +19 | 瓥 |
Variant forms
There is a design nuance between the form of 瓜Category:Articles containing Chinese-language text in modern Japanese and in other languages. Traditionally, the character consists of five strokes. In Japanese kanji simplification, however, the third stroke (i.e. a vertical-horizontal turning stroke) was broken into two strokes, and 瓜Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text became a six-stroke radical character. This change also applies to hyōgai kanji.
| Chinese (Mainland China) |
Chinese (Taiwan) |
Modern Japanese |
|---|---|---|
| 瓜 | 瓜 | 瓜 |
| 瓞 | 瓞 | 瓞 |
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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