Radical 124 or radical () meaning "
feather" is one of the 29
Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6
strokes
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In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary
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'', there are 220 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this
radical.
is also the 147th indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components ''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' () is a lexicographic tool used to order the Chinese characters in mainland China. The specification is also known as GF 0011-2009.
In China's normative documents, "radical" is defined as any ...
'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese
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Mathematics
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dictionaries published in
mainland China
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Evolution
File:羽-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script
Oracle bone script () is an ancient form of Chinese characters that were engraved on oracle bonesanimal bones or Turtle shell#Plastron, turtle plastrons used in pyromancy, pyromantic divination. Oracle bone script was used in the late 2nd millen ...
character
File:羽-bronze.svg, Bronze script character
File:羽-bigseal.svg, Large seal script
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character
File:羽-seal.svg, Small seal script character
Derived characters
Variant forms
File:羽-mingti-kangxi.svg, Traditional printing form of 羽 in the ''Kangxi Dictionary''
File:Regular Style CJKV Radical 124 (1).svg, The most common written form of 羽 in regular script
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File:Regular Style CJKV Radical 124 (0).svg, Regular script imitating the printing form
Traditionally, this radical character is printed as and written as .
In modern Chinese, both the standard printing form and writing form of this character have been altered to , though the more traditional printing form is still seen in some Traditional Chinese publication.
In modern Japanese, the Kangxi form (old form) and the written form (new form) are encoded separately in
JIS and
Unihan
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(New : U+7FBD; Old : U+FA1E). The new form is used in ''
jōyō kanji'' while the old form is used in ''
hyōgai kanji'', with the exception that in , and , the component is replaced by .
Literature
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External links
Unihan Database - U+7FBD
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