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Radical 15

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Pinyin:
  
bīng

Wade–Giles:
  
ping1

Jyutping:
  
bing1

Bopomofo:
  
ㄅ一ㄥ

Cantonese Yale:
  
bing1

Hiragana:
  
にすい nisui

Radical 15

Radical 15, meaning ice, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 115 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under 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. 
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

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