Radical 32

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Pinyin: tǔ Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuu Cantonese Yale: tóu		Bopomofo: ㄊㄨˇ Wade–Giles: tʻu Jyutping: tou2

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

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