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Radical 112

Chinese character radical

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Radical 112 or radical stone (石部) meaning "stone" (石头) is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 499 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 102nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Chinese names for chemical elements, radical 石 means that this element is solid non-metal at room temperature and standard pressure.

01Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+2 (=碇) SC (=磯)
+3 SC (=礬) SC (=礦) SC (=碭) SC (=碼)
+4 (= -> ) JP (=碎) SC (=磚) SC (=硨) SC (=硯) SC (=碸)
+5 TC variant/JP -> (=) SC (=礪) SC (=礱) SC (=礫) JP nonstandard (=礦) SC (=礎) SC (=硜)
+6 (=研 硯) (=砰 / -> 研) SC (=碩) SC (=硤) SC (=磽) SC (=磑) SC (=礄)
+7 (also SC form of 確) SC (=磠) SC (obsolete) (=)
+8 (= -> ) SC (=礙) SC (=磧) SC (=磣)
+9 (= -> ) SC (=)
+10 (=硫 / -> ) (=谿 -> ) (= -> )
+11
+12
+13 (= -> / -> )
+14 (=磕) (=磁)
+15
+16 (= -> )
+17
+18
+19
+20

02Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.

03Literature

  • 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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