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Radical 2

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Pinyin:
  
gǔn

Gwoyeu Romatzyh:
  
goen

Cantonese Yale:
  
kwan2

Bopomofo:
  
ㄍㄨㄣˇ

Wade–Giles:
  
kun

Jyutping:
  
gwan2

Radical 2

Radical 2 meaning "vertical stroke" is one of six of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only 21 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo. 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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