靑
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靑 (U+9751) "green/blue"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	qīng
Bopomofo:	ㄑㄧㄥ
Wade–Giles:	ch'ing1
Cantonese Yale:	cheng1, ching1
Jyutping:	ceng1, cing1
JapaneseKana:	セイ sei / ショウ shō (on'yomi) あお ao (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	청 cheong
Hán-Việt:	thanh
Names
Japanese name(s):	青/あお ao
Hangul:	푸를 pureul
Stroke order animation

Radical 174 orradical blue (靑部/青部) meaning"green" or"blue" or"black" (seeDistinguishing blue from green in Chinese) is one of the 9Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8strokes. It is also the character representing the colorao inJapanese, a general term covering both blue and green.

In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.

Thexin zixing form,青, is the 168th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.

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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

This radical character has different forms and stroke orders in different languages and different individual characters.

靑 (lower part is 円) is used in traditionalMing typefaces as well as in theKangxi Dictionary, but it rarely appears in handwritten scripts compared to青.

In modern Chinese, mainland China'sxin zixing (applied to chiefly Simplified Chinese, but may also be used for Traditional Chinese) and Hong Kong'sList of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters (Traditional Chinese) adopted青 (the lower part's first stroke is vertical) that resembles the written form, while Taiwan'sStandard Form of National Characters (Traditional Chinese) adopted a slightly different form,青 (the lower part is月 with the first stroke left-falling).

In modern Japanese,jōyō kanji adopts the handwritten form青 and applies it to printing typefaces, while靑 is used forhyōgai kanji.

The radical is also used as an independentChinese character. It is one of thekyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji.^[1]

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• 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.

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