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Radical 130

Chinese character radical

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Radical 130 or radical meat (肉部) meaning "meat" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. When used as a left component, the radical character transforms into in Simplified Chinese and Japanese or in modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 674 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 132nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

01Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0 ↔月
+1 (=臆)
+2 (=肯)
+3 (=胳) SC (=腸)
+4 SC (=膚) (= -> ) (=胚) (= -> ) SC (= -> ) SC (= -> ) (=肯) SC (=腎) SC (=腫) SC (=脹) SC (=脅)
+5 SC (=膽) (=肢) SC (= -> ) SC (= -> ) SC (=腖) SC (=臚) SC (=脛) SC (=脈)
+6 SC (=膠) (=胸) (=脆) (=𢆡 -> ) SC (=膾) SC (= -> ) SC (=臍) SC (=腦) SC (=膿) SC (=臠)
+7 (= -> ) SC/JP (=腳) SC/JP (=脫) JP (=腦) SC (=腡) SC (=臉)
+8 (=膘 / -> / -> ) (=胼) (also SC form of 臘) (= -> ) (=脾) SC (=膕)
+9 (=膣) SC (= -> ) SC (=膩) SC/HK (=膃) SC (= -> )
+10 (=膂) SC (=臏)
+11 (=腸)
+12
+13 (=臀)
+14 JP (=臟)
+15 (=膘)
+16 JP (=胭) SC (=臢)
+17 (= -> )
+18
+19
⺼ in modern Traditional Chinese
⺼ in modern Traditional Chinese

02Variant forms

This radical character has different forms in different languages when used as a left component. Traditionally, the writing form of the radical character as a left component is hardly distinguishable with Radical 74 (月 "moon"). In the Kangxi Dictionary, 月 which means the "moon" has its two horizontal strokes' right ends detached from the frame, while those in 月 which means "meat" are connected to the frame. In modern Japanese and Simplified Chinese, this difference no longer exists.

In modern Traditional Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the two horizontal strokes in 月 meaning "meat" are altered to a dot and an upward horizontal stroke, a change that also applies to printing typefaces despite it historically only being used as a handwriting variant.

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 second 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.
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