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Radical 12

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Pinyin:
  
bā

Gwoyeu Romatzyh:
  
ba

Cantonese Yale:
  
baat

Bopomofo:
  
ㄅㄚ

Wade–Giles:
  
pa

Jyutping:
  
baat3

Radical 12

Radical 12, meaning eight or all, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. "八" is two bent lines that signal divide. Eight is the single-digit number that can be divided by two the greatest number of times.

Contents

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 44 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

Descendants

  • ハ
  • Chinese Numeral 八
  • Last: 七
  • Next: 九

    • 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. 
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

    • References

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