Radical 186
Chinese character radical
香 | ||||
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香 (U+9999) "fragrant" | ||||
Pronunciations | ||||
Pinyin: | xiāng | |||
Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧㄤ | |||
Wade–Giles: | hsiang1 | |||
Cantonese Yale: | heung1 | |||
Jyutping: | hoeng1 | |||
Japanese Kana: | コウ kō/ キョウ kyō (on'yomi) か ka / かお-る kao-ru / かおり kaori (kun'yomi) | |||
Sino-Korean: | 향 hyang | |||
Hán-Việt: | hương | |||
Names | ||||
Japanese name(s): | かおり kaori 匂い香/においコウ nioikō | |||
Hangul: | 향기 hyanggi | |||
Stroke order animation | ||||
Radical 186, meaning "fragrant", is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 37 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
香 is also the 183rd 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
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 香 |
+4 | 馚 |
+5 | 馛 馜 馝 |
+7 | 馞 馟 馠 |
+8 | 馡 馢 馣 |
+9 | 馤 馥 |
+10 | 馦 馧 |
+11 | 馨 |
+12 | 馩 |
+14 | 馪 |
+18 | 馫 (=馨) |
Kanji
As an isolated character is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1]
It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.[2] It was added because it is a character in 香 (Kagawa).[2]
References
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
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Chinese radicals according to the Kangxi Dictionary
- 211 齒
- 214 龠
See also: Kangxi radicals