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Radical 95

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Pinyin:
  
xuán

Wade–Giles:
  
hsüan2

Jyutping:
  
jyun4

Bopomofo:
  
ㄒㄩㄢˊ

Cantonese Yale:
  
yùhn

Radical 95

Hiragana:
  
ケン, ゲン ken, gen くろい kuroi

Radical 95 meaning "dark" or "profound" is 1 of 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 5 strokes.

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

no additional strokes: 玄 "dark, deep, profound, abstruse" 4 additional strokes: 玅 "mysterious, subtle, exquisite" 5 additional strokes: 玆 "now, here; this; time, year" 6 additional strokes: 率 "to lead; ratio; rate, frequency; limit"; 玈 "black"

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: 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 95 Wikipedia