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Radical 142

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Pinyin:
  
chóng

Wade–Giles:
  
ch'ung2

Jyutping:
  
cung4, wai2

Bopomofo:
  
ㄔㄨㄥˊ

Cantonese Yale:
  
chung4, wai2

Hiragana:
  
キ, むし ki, mushi

Radical 142

Radical 142 meaning "snake", "insect" or "worm" is 1 of 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 1067 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

The character "虫" models a snake. To derive from this, characters meaning creeping animals such as reptiles, insects, worms, amphibians, and shellfish are included in this radical.

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. 

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