Radical 180

音
Radical 180 (U+2FB3)
音 (U+97F3) "sound"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:yīn
Bopomofo:ㄧㄣ
Wade–Giles:yin1
Cantonese Yale:yam1
Jyutping:jam1
Japanese Kana:オン on / イン in (on'yomi)
おと oto / ね ne (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:음 eum
Hán-Việt:âm, ậm, ơm
Names
Japanese name(s):音/おと oto
音偏/おとへん otohen
Hangul:소리 sori
Stroke order animation

Radical 180 or radical sound (音部) meaning "sound" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 43 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

音 is also the 186th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 音
+2 竟 章
+4 韴 韵SC (=韻)
+5 韶 韷
+7 韸
+8 韺SC
+9 韹 韺TC
+10 韻 韼SC
+11 韼TC韽 韾 響JP/響GB TC
+12 響TC
+13 頀SC
+14 頀TC

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.