Suvarna Garge (Editor)

Radical 32

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Pinyin:
  
tǔ

Gwoyeu Romatzyh:
  
tuu

Cantonese Yale:
  
tóu

Bopomofo:
  
ㄊㄨˇ

Wade–Giles:
  
tʻu

Jyutping:
  
tou2

Radical 32

Radical 32 meaning "earth" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 580 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In the Chinese Wu Xing ("Five Phases"), 土 represents the element Earth.

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, 1987: 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. 

    • References

    Radical 32 Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics