Radical 116
Chinese character radical
Radical 116 or radical cave (穴部) meaning "cave" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
穴 is also the 117th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
01Derived characters
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 穴 |
| +1 | 穵 |
| +2 | 究 穷SC (=窮) |
| +3 | 穸 穹 空 穻 |
| +4 | 穼 穽 (=阱 -> 阜) 穾 穿 窀 突 窂 (=牢 -> 牛) 窃SC (=竊) |
| +5 | 窄 窅 窆 窇 窈 窉 窊 窋 窌 窍SC (=竅) 窎SC (=窵) |
| +6 | 窏 窐 窑SC (=窯) 窒 窓JP (=窗) 窔 窕 |
| +7 | 窖 窗 窘 窙 窚 窛 窜SC (=竄) 窝SC (=窩) |
| +8 | 窞 窟 窠 窡 窢 窣 窤 窥SC (=窺) 窦SC (=竇) 窧 |
| +9 | 窨 窩 窪 窫 窬 窭SC (=窶) |
| +10 | 窮 窯 窰 (=窯) 窱 窲 窳 窴 |
| +11 | 窵 窶 窷 窸 窹 窺 窻 (=窗) 窼 窽 |
| +12 | 窾 窿 竀 竁 竂 (=寮 -> 宀) 竃 (=灶 -> 火) |
| +13 | 竄 竅 |
| +14 | 竆 (=窮) |
| +15 | 竇 |
| +16 | 竈 (=灶 -> 火) 竉 |
| +17 | 竊 |
02Variant forms
This radical character takes different forms in different languages. In the Kangxi Dictionary, the first stroke is a vertical dot, and the last stroke of the radical character starts with a short horizontal line when appearing independently (穴), and becomes a vertical-curve-horizontal stroke ㇄ when used as an upper component, with an exception of 空 in which the radical's last stroke starts with a short horizontal line (穴+工). In Japanese and Korean hanja, when used as an upper component, the last stroke of the radical character is a vertical-curve-hook stroke ㇟. In Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, its last stroke is a vertical-curve-horizontal stroke ㇄. In Mainland China's xin zixing, it is a rightward dot.
| Traditional Chinese | Simplified Chinese | Japanese | Korean |
|---|---|---|---|
| 穴 空 | 穴 空 | 穴 空 | 穴 空 |
03Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a fifth grade kanji.
04Literature
- 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.
Sources and credits
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