Radical 26 Explained

Uni:5369
Meaning:seal
Pny:jié
Bopo:ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Wade:chieh2
Jyutping:zit3
Yale:jit
Poj:chiat
Cn:(卩) /单耳旁 dān'ěrpáng
(卩) /单耳刀 dān'ěrdāo
(㔾) 卷字底 juǎnzìdǐ
(㔾, Simp.) 仓字底 cāngzìdǐ
Onyomi:セツ setsu
Kunyomi:わりふ warifu
Jp:節旁/ふしづくり fushizukuri
まげわりふ magewarifu
わりふ warifu
Hang:무릎마디 mureup-madi
Hanja:절 jeol

Radical 26 or radical seal meaning "seal" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of two strokes.

It usually transforms as when appearing at the bottom of a Chinese character.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 40 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 21st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with being its associated indexing component.

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+1
+2 SC (=/ -> )
+3
+4
+5 SC/JP (=)
+6
+7
+8
+9
+11

In Unihan database, is indexed radical 26 + 1 stroke (3 strokes in total), with the extra stroke unspecified.[1] Traditionally, this character or component consists of only two strokes (乚).

Literature

References

  1. https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=353E Unihan data for U+353E

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