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| 夕 (U+5915) "evening, sunset" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | xī, xì | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ | |||
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | shi, shih | |||
| Wade–Giles: | hsi1, hsi4 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | jihk | |||
| Jyutping: | zik6 | |||
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | se̍k | |||
| JapaneseKana: | セキ seki (on'yomi) ゆう yū / ゆうべ yūbe (kun'yomi) | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 석 seok | |||
| Names | ||||
| Japanese name(s): | 夕/ゆうべ/ゆう yūbe/yū タ/た ta | |||
| Hangul: | 저녁 jeonyeok | |||
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Radical 36 orradical evening (夕部) meaning"evening" or"sunset" is one of the 31Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of threestrokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
夕 is also the 43rd indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.
| Strokes | Characters |
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| +0 | 夕 |
| +2 | 外夗夘 |
| +3 | 夙多夛 (=多)名 |
| +5 | 夜夝 (=晴->日) |
| +7 | 夞KO够SC/variant (=夠)夠 |
| +8 | 梦SC/variant (=夢) |
| +9 | 夡 |
| +11 | 夢夣夤夥 |
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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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. | |
