Radical 111
Radical 111 or radical arrow (矢部) meaning "arrow" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 64 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
矢 is also the 110th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 矢 |
+2 | 矣 |
+3 | 矤 知 |
+4 | 矦 矧 矨 |
+5 | 矩 |
+6 | 矪 矫 |
+7 | 矬 短 |
+8 | 矮 |
+12 | 矯 矰 |
+14 | 矱 |
+15 | 矲 |
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 矢 is a Chinese character that means arrow. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is taught in second grade.
References
- ^ "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Further reading
- 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.