Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

← 202 Radical 203 (U+2FCA) 204 →
(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
Stroke order animation

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

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 in Japanese jōyō kanji.

Evolution

edit

Derived characters

edit
Strokes Characters
+0 JP (=黑)
+3 SC/TC/KO/JP
+4
+5
+6 SC (=黶)
+7
+8 SC (=黷) SC (=黲)
+9
+10
+11
+13
+14
+15
+16

Literature

edit
  • 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.
edit