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Radical 75

Chinese character radical

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Radical 75 or radical tree (木部), meaning "tree", is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,369 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 64th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with its alternative form being its associated indexing component.

In the Chinese wuxing ("Five Phases"), 木 represents the element wood.

01Evolution

Kana and ほ are from .

未 (not yet; 8th earthly branch)

Compare .

朱 (cinnabar; vermilion)

末 (tip, top)

本 (root)

Hand () holding grain. Original character of (glutinous grain).

02Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1 SC (= -> / 朮) KO
+2 (also SC/variant form of 樸) (=朵) (also SC form of 機 / variant form of -> ) SC (= -> ) JP SC (= -> ) SC (=權)
+3 SC/JP (=條) JP nonstandard (=栃) SC (=杨) SC (=榪) SC (=來)
+4 SC/variant (= -> ) (=松) (SC form of 構; also variant form of 枸) (=柟) SC (=樅) JP SC/JP (=樞) SC (=棗) SC (=櫪) (=櫨) SC (=梘) SC (=棖) (=松) SC (=槍) SC (=楓) SC (=梟)
+5 HK (=檯) SC (=檸) (=柿) JP (=查) SC (=檉) (=柳) JP JP (=) SC/variant (=柵) (=棗) SC (=標) SC (=棧) SC (=櫛) SC (=櫳) SC (=棟) SC (=櫨) SC (=櫟) SC (=欄) SC (=樹)
+6 (also SC form of 棲) SC (=欒) JP (=櫻) JP (=棧) SC (=椏) SC (=橈) SC (=楨) SC (=檔) SC (=榿) SC (=橋) SC (=樺) SC/JP (=檜) SC (=槳) SC (=樁) SC (=樳) SC variant
+7 (=柳) TC variant SC (=檮) SC (=棶) SC (=槤) SC (=檢) SC/HK (=梲) SC (=櫺)
+8 JP JP (=檢) SC (=槼= -> ) SC (=櫝) SC (=槧) SC/JP (=槶) SC (=欏) KO SC (=樿) SC (=橢) SC (=槮) GB TC variant SC variant
+9 (=棕) 椿 Traditional variant TC variant Kangxi/JP (=榆) SC/JP (=樓) JP (=樂) 楿 JP SC (=欖) SC/HK (=榲) SC (=櫬) SC (=櫚)
+10 (= -> ) 榿 (=槁) Kangxi (=槙) JP (=樣) SC (=檟) SC (=檻) JP (=櫳) SC (=檳) SC (=櫧) JP nonstandard (=櫸)
+11 Kangxi (=概) (= -> ) 槿 JP (=權) SC/JP (=橫) SC (=檣) SC (=櫻) SC variant
+12 (=槔) (= -> ) 樿 (= -> ) (=榴) (=橛) TC/JP variant (=槔) SC (=櫥) JP SC (=櫓) SC (=櫞) SC variant SC variant
+13 橿 TC variant TC variant SC/variant (=檁) JP nonstandard (=櫟) SC variant
+14 TC variant 檿 (=櫥) GB TC variant
+15 Traditional variant
+16
+17 櫿
+18 JP old (=櫸) (= -> )
+19
+20 | GB TC variant
+21 Traditional variant
+24 (=櫺)
+25

03Sinogram

As an isolated character it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji. It is present in the name of Japan in the Japanese language (日本, Nippon) meaning "Origin of the Sun".

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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