Radical 203

黑
Radical 203 (U+2FCA)
黑 (U+9ED1) "black"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:hēi
Bopomofo:ㄏㄟ
Wade–Giles:hei1
Cantonese Yale:haak1, hak1
Jyutping:haak1, hak1
Japanese Kana:コク koku (on'yomi)
くろ kuro / くろ-い kuro-i (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:흑 heuk
Hán-Việt:hắc
Names
Japanese name(s):黒/くろ kuro
Hangul:검을 geomeu
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Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

黑 is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

This radical character is simplified as 黒 in Japanese jōyō kanji.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 黑 黒JP (=黑)
+3 墨SC/TC/KO/墨JP 黓
+4 黔 黕 黖 黗 默
+5 黚 黛 黜 黝 點
+6 黟 黠 黡SC (=黶)
+7 黢 黣
+8 黤 黥 黦 黧 黨 黩SC (=黷) 黪SC (=黲)
+9 黫 黬 黭 黮 黯
+10 黰 黱
+11 黲 黳 黴
+13 黵
+14 黶
+15 黷
+16 黸

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.