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Radical 213

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Pinyin:
  
guī

Wade–Giles:
  
kuei1

Jyutping:
  
gau1, gwai1, gwan1

Bopomofo:
  
ㄍㄨㄟ

Cantonese Yale:
  
gau1, gwai1, gwan1

Hiragana:
  
キ, キュウ ki, kyūかめ kame

Radical 213

Radical 213 meaning "turtle" is one of only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes.

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In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only 24 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

In Taoist cosmology, 龜 (Polyhedron) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram 坎 Kǎn.

In Unicode

  • Unicode point U+9F9C: 龜
  • Unicode point U+2FD4: ⿔

    • 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

    Radical 213 Wikipedia
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