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Radical 172 or radical short tailed bird (隹部) meaning "bird" or "short-tailed bird" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary , there are 233 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical .
Stroke numbers vary dramatically, for example, characters "丶", "一" and "乙" have only one stroke, while character "齉" has 36 strokes, and "龘" (three 龍s, dragons) 48 strokes. The Chinese character with the most strokes in the entire Unicode character set is "𱁬" (three 雲s and three 龍s) of 84 strokes. [2]
Radical 173 or radical rain (雨部) meaning "rain" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. This radical character transforms into ⻗ when used as an upper component. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 298 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
Strokes (笔画; 筆劃; bǐhuà) are the smallest building units of Chinese characters. When writing a Chinese character, the trace of a dot or a line left on the writing material (such as paper) from pen-down to pen-up is called a stroke. [4] Strokes combine with each other in a Chinese character in different ways.
The following tables present some experimental results on the distribution of Chinese character strokes in several dictionaries and character sets. The strokes are summarized in the five categories of heng (横, 一 'horizontal'), shu (竖, 丨 'vertical'), pie (撇, 丿 'left-falling'), dian (点, 丶 'dot') and zhe (折, 𠃍 'bent').
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are only 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. 丨 is also the 2nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China , with 亅 being its associated indexing component (used to be ...
Fulu for placement above the primary entrance of one's home, intended to protect against evil. Fulu (traditional Chinese: 符籙; simplified Chinese: 符箓; pinyin: fúlù) are Taoist magic symbols and incantations, [1] [2] translatable into English as 'talismanic script', [a] which are written or painted on talismans by Taoist practitioners.
The change also applies to traditional Chinese characters (e.g. 運) used in mainland China. In Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters and Hong Kong's List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters , the one-dot form with two twists ⻎ (4 strokes in dictionaries) is adopted, despite the more traditional form ⻍ is still widely ...