Radical 200 or radical hemp (麻部) meaning "hemp" or "flax" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes. Historically, it is the Chinese word for cannabis.
| 麻 | ||
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| 麻 (U+9EBB) "hemp, flax" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | má | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄇㄚˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ma2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | ma4 | |
| Jyutping: | maa4 | |
| Japanese Kana: | マ ma / バ ba (on'yomi) あさ asa (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 마 ma | |
| Hán-Việt: | ma, mà, mơ | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 麻/あさ asa 麻冠/あさかんむり asakanmuri | |
| Hangul: | 삼 sam | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
麻 is also the 193rd 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 | 麻 |
| +3 | 麼 麽 (=麼) |
| +4 | 麾 |
| +7 | 麿 |
| +8 | 黀 |
| +9 | 黁 |
| +13 | 黂 (=𪎰) |
Variant forms
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Radical 200 in the Kangxi Dictionary
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A variant form
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Standard form in Traditional Chinese
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Standard form in Japanese
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Standard form in Simplified Chinese
Sinogram
editAs an independent sinogram 麻 is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.[1] It is part of taima (大麻), a Japanese word for cannabis.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "KANJI-Link". www.kanji-link.com. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
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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