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Radical 53

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Pinyin:
  
yǎn

Gwoyeu Romatzyh:
  
yean

Cantonese Yale:
  
yím

Bopomofo:
  
ㄧㄢˇ

Wade–Giles:
  
yen

Jyutping:
  
jim2

Radical 53

Radical 53 meaning "dotted cliff" or "house on cliff" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 15 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. 

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