Radical 24
Radical 24 or radical ten (十部) meaning ten, complete, or perfect is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.
| 十 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 十 (U+5341) "ten" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shí | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕˊ | |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shyr | |
| Wade–Giles: | shih2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sahp | |
| Jyutping: | sap6 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | cha̍p (col.) si̍p (lit.) | |
| Japanese Kana: | ジュウ jū (on'yomi) と to / とお tō (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 십 sip | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 十偏 jūhen | |
| Hangul: | 열 yeol | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
十 is also the 6th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
十 is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now 針/针), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape.
Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 十 |
| +1 | 卂 千 卄 |
| +2 | 卅 卆JP nonstandard (=卒) 升 午 |
| +3 | 卉 半 |
| +4 | 卋 (=世 -> 一) 卌 卍 华SC (=華 -> 艸) 协SC (=協) 卐 毕SC (=畢 -> 田) |
| +5 | |
| +6 | 丧SC (=喪 -> 口) 卑 卒 卓 協 单SC (=單 -> 口) 卖SC (=賣 -> 貝) |
| +7 | 南 |
| +8 | |
| +9 | 卙 |
| +10 | 博 |
| +19 | 卛 颦SC (=顰 -> 頁) |
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.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
- KangXi: page 155, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
- Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9
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