Radical 42

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Radical 42 (U+2F29)
(U+5C0F) "small, insignificant"
Pinyin: xiǎo
Bopomofo: ㄒㄧㄠˇ
Wade–Giles: hsiao3
Jyutping: siu2
Cantonese Yale: siu2
Hiragana: shou (seu), chiisai
ショウ (セウ), ちいさい
Kanji: 小 shou
Hangul: 작을 jageul
Sino-Korean: 소 so

Radical 42 meaning "small" or "insignificant" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 41 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 42

seal script character
strokes character
without additional strokes
1 additional stroke 尐 少
2 additional strokes 尒 尓 尔 尕
3 additional strokes 尖 尗 尘 当
5 additional strokes 尙 尚
6 additional strokes 尛 尜 尝
9 additional strokes
10 additional strokes 尟 尠
11 additional strokes

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. 
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

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