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Pinyin:
  
jī

Wade–Giles:
  
chi1

Jyutping:
  
gei1

Bopomofo:
  
ㄐ一

Cantonese Yale:
  
gei1

Hiragana:
  
つくえ tsukue

Radical 16

Radical 16, meaning small table, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

The identical character 几 used in Simplified Chinese for 幾 "a few, some, almost, nearly" does not have any historical connection to the "table" character.

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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