Radical 98, also known as the radical tile (瓦部) meaning "tile" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (out of a total of 214 radicals) and is composed of 5 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 174 characters (out of 49,030) listed under this radical.
瓦 is also the 72nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components, predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. In the simplified form (xin zixing), the radical is modified and consists of only 4 strokes, instead of the traditional 5-stroke form.
Evolution
Derived characters
Sinogram
瓦 is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.
See also
- List of jōyō kanji
References
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.
External links
- Unihan Database - U 74E6
