Radical 167 or radical gold () meaning "
gold
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" or "
metal
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" is one of the 9
Kangxi radical
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s (214 radicals in total) composed of 8
strokes. It also represents the Chinese family name,
Jin, which is No. 29
of the
Hundred Family Surnames
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.
In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 806 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this
radical.
In the
Chinese Wuxing ("Five Phases"), 金 represents the element
Metal
A metal () is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electrical resistivity and conductivity, electricity and thermal conductivity, heat relatively well. These properties are all associated wit ...
.
is also the 176th indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components
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In China's normative documents, "radical" is ...
'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese
Simplification, Simplify, or Simplified may refer to:
Mathematics
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dictionaries published in
mainland China
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, with (Simp.) and (Trad.) listed as its associated indexing components.
In
Chinese names for chemical elements, 釒/钅means that this
element is solid metal at
room temperature and
standard pressure.
Evolution
File:金-bronze.svg, Bronze script character
File:金-bigseal.svg, Large seal script
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character
File:金-seal.svg, Small seal script
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character
Derived characters
Literature
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External links
Unihan Database - U+91D1
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