Radical 76

Chinese character radical
欠
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欠 (U+6B20) "owe, lack, yawn"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:qiàn
Bopomofo:ㄑㄧㄢˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:chiann
Wade–Giles:chʻien4
Cantonese Yale:him
Jyutping:him3
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:khiàm
Japanese Kana:ケン ken (on'yomi)
あくび akubi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:흠 heum
Names
Chinese name(s):欠字旁 qiànzìpáng
Japanese name(s):欠伸/あくび akubi
欠ける/かける kakeru
欠旁/けんづくり kendzukuri
吹き旁/ふきづくり fukidzukuri
Hangul:하품 hapum
Stroke order animation

Radical 76 or radical lack (欠部) meaning "owe", "lack", or "yawn" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 235 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

欠 is also the 90th 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 欠
+2 次SC/JP/次TC 欢SC (=歡)
+4 欣 欤SC (=歟) 欥 欦 欧SC/JP (=歐)
+5 欨 欪
+6 欫 欬 欭 欮 欯 欰 欱
+7 欲 欳 欴 欵 欶 欷 欸
+8 欹 欺 欻 欼 欽 款 欿 歄GB TC variant
+9 欩 歀 歁 歂 歃 歄Traditional variant 歅 歆 歇 歈
+10 歊 歋 歌 歍
+11 歉 歎 歏 歐 歑 歒 歓JP (=歡) 歔SC variant
+12 歔TC variant 歕 歖 歗 歘 歙 歚
+13 歛 歜 歝
+14 歞 歟
+15 歠 歡GB TC variant
+17 歡Traditional variant

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.[1]

Look up 欠 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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.

External links

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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.