Radical 131 Explained

Uni:	81E3
Meaning:	minister, official
Pny:	chén
Bopo:	ㄔㄣˊ
Gr:	chern
Wade:	chên^2
Jyutping:	san4
Yale:	sàhn
Onyomi:	シン shin / ジン jin
Kunyomi:	おみ omi
Jp:	臣/しん shin
Hang:	신하 sinha
Hanja:	신 sin

Radical 131 or radical minister meaning "minister" or "official" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 16 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 125th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0
+2
+6
+8
+11

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.

Further reading

• Book: Fazzioli, Edoardo . calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko . Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters . 1987 . . New York . 0-89659-774-1 .
• Book: Lunde, Ken . CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing . Second . Jan 5, 2009 . . . 978-0-596-51447-1 . Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets . http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf .

External links

• Unihan Database - U+81E3

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji . March 24, 2022 . 2023-05-06 . www.kanshudo.com.