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Radical 47

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(U+5DDB) "river"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chuān
Bopomofo:ㄔㄨㄢ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:chuan
Wade–Giles:chʻuan1
Cantonese Yale:chyūn[1]
Jyutping:cyun1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:chhoan
Japanese Kana:セン sen (on'yomi)
かわ kawa (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:천 cheon
Names
Chinese name(s):三拐 sānguǎi
Japanese name(s):川/かわ kawa
曲がり川/まがりがわ magarigawa
曲げ川/まげかわ magekawa
三本川/さんぼんがわ sanbongawa
Hangul:내 nae
Stroke order animation

Radical 47 or radical river (巛部) meaning "river" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 60th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
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+3
+8 JP (=巢)
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Literature

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ Erik E. Peterson. "On-line Chinese Tools - Chinese Character Dictionary". Retrieved 2011-04-08.
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