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Radical 53

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Radical 53
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Radical 53 or radical dotted cliff (广部) meaning "house on cliff" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

Quick Facts 广, Pronunciations ...

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 15 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

广 is also the 46th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In addition, this character is also the simplified form of guǎng, hence called 廣字頭/广字头 guǎngzìtóu chiefly by Simplified Chinese users.

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Evolution

Derived characters

More information Strokes, Characters ...
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Literature

  • 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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