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Radical 72

Chinese character radical

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Radical 72 or radical sun (日部) meaning "sun" or "day" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 453 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 75th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with (formerly Kangxi Radical 73 "say") and being its associated indexing components.

01Evolution

Compare and 𓇳; unrelated to , , ,

02Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1 SC/JP (= -> )
+2
+3 SC (=時) SC (=曠) SC (=暘)
+4 (=時) SC (=曇) SC variant
+5 TC variant (=是) SC/JP (=晝) SC (=曨) SC (= -> ) JP nonstandard (=曠)
+6 SC (=曉) SC (=暉)
+7
+8JP (=晚) JP (=曉) SC (=暫) SC/JP variant (=映)
+9 TC variant (=映) SC variant
+10 TC variant JP (=曆) SC (=曖) SC/JP variant SC variant GB TC variant GB TC variant
+11 (=皞) TC variant TC variant Traditional variant SC variant SC variant SC variant
+12 TC/JP Kangxi (=暨) TC variant TC variant Traditional variant (= -> ) (=皞) SC variant
+13 (=星) (= ->) TC variant GB TC variant SC/TC/JP variant
+14 Kangxi/KO variant Traditional variant GB TC variant GB TC variant
+15 Traditional variant Traditional variant (= -> )
+16
+17
+19 GB TC variant
+20 Traditional variant
+21

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 first 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.
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