Radical 95

Radical 95 meaning "dark" or "profound" is 1 of 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 5 strokes.

Radical 95 (U+2F5E)
(U+7384) "dark, profound"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:xuán
Bopomofo:ㄒㄩㄢˊ
Wade–Giles:hsüan2
Cantonese Yale:yùhn
Jyutping:jyun4
Japanese Kana:ケン, ゲン ken, gen
くろい kuroi
Sino-Korean:현 hyeon
Names
Japanese name(s):玄 gen
Hangul:검을 geomeul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only six characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 95

Add. strokes Characters
no additional strokes "dark, deep, profound, abstruse"
4 additional strokes "mysterious, subtle, exquisite"
5 additional strokes "now, here; this; time, year"
6 additional strokes "to lead; ratio; rate, frequency; limit"
"black"


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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