Radical 72

Chinese character radical
← 71Radical 72 (U+2F47)73 →
(U+65E5) "sun, day"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄖˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:ryh
Wade–Giles:jih4
Cantonese Yale:yaht
Jyutping:jat6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:ji̍t
Japanese Kana:ニチ nichi / ジツ jitsu (on'yomi)
ひ hi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:일 il
Names
Chinese name(s):(Left) 日字旁 rìzìpáng
(Top) 日字頭/日字头 rìzìtóu
Japanese name(s):日/にち nichi
(Left) 日偏/ひへん hihen
(Left) 日偏/にちへん nichihen
Hangul:날 nal
Stroke order animation

Radical 72 or radical sun (日部) meaning "sun" or "day" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 453 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 75th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with (formerly Kangxi Radical 73 "say") and being its associated indexing components.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1旦 旧SC/JP (=舊 -> )
+2早 旪 旫 旬 旭 旮 旯
+3旨 旰 旱 旲 旳 旴 旵 时SC (=時) 旷SC (=曠) 旸SC (=暘)
+4旹 (=時) 旺 旻 旼 旽 旾 旿 昀 昁 昂 昃 昄 昅 昆 昇 昈 昉 昊 昋 昌 昍 明 昏 昐 昑 昒 易 昔 昕 昖 昗 昘 昙SC (=曇) SC variant
+5TC variant 昜 昝 昞 星 映 昡 昢 昣 昤 春 昦 昧 昨 昩 昪 昫 昬 昭 昮 是 昰 (=是) 昱 昲 昳 昴 昵 昶 昷 昸 昹 昺 昻 昼SC/JP (=晝) 昽SC (=曨) 显SC (=顯 -> ) 昿JP nonstandard (=曠)
+6晀 晁 時 晃 晄 晅 晆 晇 晈 晉 晊 晋 晌 晍 晎 晏 晐 晑 晒 晓SC (=曉) 晔 晕 晖SC (=暉)
+7晗 晘 晙 晚 晛 晜 晝 晞 晟 晠 晡 晢 晣 晤 晥 晦 晧 晨
+8JP (=晚) 晪 晫 晬 晭 普 景 晰 晱 晲 晳 晴 晵 晶 晷 晸 晹 智 晻 晼 晽 晾 晿 暀 暁JP (=曉) 暂SC (=暫) 暃 暑 SC/JP variant (=映)
+9暄 暅 暆 暇 暈 暉 暊 暋 暌 暍 TC variant (=映) 暏 暐 暒 暓 暔 暕 暖 暗 暘 暙 SC variant
+10TC variant 暜 暝 暞 暟 暠 暡 暢 暣 暤 暥 暦JP (=曆) 暧SC (=曖) 暨 SC/JP variant SC variant GB TC variant GB TC variant
+11暩 暪 暫 暬 暭 (=皞) TC variant TC variantTraditional variant 暲 暳 暴 暵 暶 暷 SC variant SC variant SC variant
+12TC/JP 暺 暻 暼 暽 暾 暿 曀 曁Kangxi (=暨) TC variant TC variantTraditional variant 曆 曇 曈 曉 曊 曋 曌 (=照 -> ) 曍 (=皞) SC variant
+13曎 曏 曐 (=星) 曑 (=參 ->) 曒 曓 TC variant 曕 曖 曗 GB TC variant SC/TC/JP variant
+14Kangxi/KO variant Traditional variant 曛 曜 GB TC variant GB TC variant
+15Traditional variantTraditional variant 曡 (=疊 -> ) 曢 曤 曥 曦 曧 曨
+16
+17
+19曪 曫 曬 GB TC variant
+20Traditional variant
+21

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.
  • Unihan Database - U+65E5
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