Radical 110 or radical spear (矛部) meaning "spear" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
| 矛 | ||
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| 矛 (U+77DB) "spear" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | máo | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄇㄠˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | mao2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | maau4 | |
| Jyutping: | maau4 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ボウ bō / ム mu (on'yomi) ほこ hoko (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 모 mo | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 矛字旁 máozìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 矛/ほこ hoko 矛偏/ほこへん hokohen | |
| Hangul: | 창 chang | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 65 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
矛 is also the 121st 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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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 矛 |
| +4 | 矜 |
| +5 | 矝 |
| +7 | 矞 矟 |
| +8 | 矠 |
| +20 | 矡 |
Literature
edit- 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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