Radical 36

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Pinyin: xī, xì Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi, shih Cantonese Yale: jihk		Bopomofo: ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ Wade–Giles: hsi, hsi Jyutping: zik6

Radical 36 meaning "evening" or "sunset" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 34 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, 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 36 Wikipedia

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