Radical 161 or radical morning (辰部) meaning "morning" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

← 160 Radical 161 (U+2FA0) 162 →
(U+8FB0) "morning"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:chén
Bopomofo:ㄔㄣˊ
Wade–Giles:ch'en2
Cantonese Yale:san4
Jyutping:san4
Japanese Kana:シン shin (on'yomi)
たつ tatsu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:신 sin
Hán-Việt:thần
Names
Japanese name(s):しんのたつ shinnotatsu
Hangul:별 byeol
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 15 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In Chinese astrology, represents the fifth Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac.

is also the 154th 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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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+3
+6
+8 (=農)
+12

Literature

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  • 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.
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