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Radical 174

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Pinyin:
  
qīng

Wade–Giles:
  
ch'ing1

Jyutping:
  
ceng1, cing1

Bopomofo:
  
ㄑㄧㄥ

Cantonese Yale:
  
cheng1, ching1

Radical 174

Hiragana:
  
セイ, シャウ sei, shau チン chin あお ao

Radical 174 meaning "blue" or "green" (see Distinguishing blue from green in Chinese) is 1 of 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 8 strokes. It is also the character representing the color ao in Japanese, a general term covering both blue and green.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) 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. 
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

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    Radical 174 Wikipedia
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