Radical 173

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Radical 173 (U+2FAC)
174 →
(U+96E8) "rain"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄩˇ
Wade–Giles:yü3
Cantonese Yale:yu5
Jyutping:jyu5, jyu6
Japanese Kana:ウ u (on'yomi)
あめ ame (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:우 u
Hán-Việt:
Names
Chinese name(s):雨字頭/雨字头 yǔzìtóu
Japanese name(s):雨冠/あめかんむり amekanmuri[1]
Hangul:비 bi
Stroke order animation
File:雨-order.gif

Radical 173 or radical rain (雨部) meaning "rain" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into when used as an upper component.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 170th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the component form listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+3
+4 SC (=靂)
+5 SC (=霧)
+6 SC (=霽)
+7 SC (also SC form of -> ) JP (=靈)
+8 (=𩃬) (=零)
+9 (=霧) (=靈)
+10 SC (=霢)
+11 SC (=靄)
+12
+13 (= -> )
+14 (= -> )
+15 (=雷)
+16
+17
+18
+19 (= -> ) (= -> )
+21
+31

Variant forms

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This radical is printed and written differently in modern Traditional Chinese than in other languages. In Chinese as used in Mainland China (whether Simplified or Traditional) and Japanese, the four dots in the character are almost identical, while in modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the four dots point inwards to the center of the character, despite the former form is also widely used in Traditional Chinese publications.

Printing forms
Japanese Mainland China Taiwan, Hong Kong
雨 雲 雨 雲 雨 雲

Sinogram

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This character is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[2] It is a first grade kanji.[2]

Literature

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References

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  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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