Radical 184 or radical eat () meaning "

eat Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbi ...

" or "

food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is in ...

" is one of the 11

Kangxi radical The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditio ...

s (214 radicals in total) composed of 9

strokes A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop funct ...

. In the ''

Kangxi Dictionary The ''Kangxi Dictionary'' ( (Compendium of standard characters from the Kangxi period), published in 1716, was the most authoritative dictionary of Chinese characters from the 18th century through the early 20th. The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing ...

'', there are 403 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 185th 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 Simplification, Simplify, or Simplified may refer to: Mathematics Simplification is the process of replacing a mathematical expression by an equivalent one, that is simpler (usually shorter), for example * Simplification of algebraic expressions, ...

dictionaries published in

mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...

, with the simplified left component form and its traditional form listed as its associated indexing components.

Evolution

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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:食-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:食-bigseal.svg,

Large seal script The large seal script or great seal script () is a traditional reference to Chinese writing from before the Qin dynasty (i.e. before 221 BCE), and is now popularly understood to refer narrowly to the writing of the Western and early Eastern Zhou ...

character File:食-seal.svg, Small seal script character

Derived characters

Variant forms

This radical character has different forms in different languages when used as an individual character and as a component. Traditionally, when used as an individual character, its third stroke is printed as either a horizontal line () or a vertical line (), but more often written as a slanted dot (); when used as a left component, it is usually printed as and written as in

regular script Regular script (; Hepburn: ''kaisho''), also called (), (''zhēnshū''), (''kǎitǐ'') and (''zhèngshū''), is the newest of the Chinese script styles (popularized from the Cao Wei dynasty c. 200 AD and maturing stylistically around the ...

. In China, ''

xin zixing The xin zixing () is a standardized form of Chinese character set in mainland China based on the 1964 "List of character forms of Common Chinese characters for Publishing" () as compared to ''jiu zixing'' (). The standard is based on regular script ...

'' adopted the handwritten form and and applies it also to printing typefaces. This change is applied chiefly to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China; the left component form was already replaced by the simplified form prior to the printing typeface reform. Taiwan's

Standard Form of National Characters The ''Standard Form of National Characters'' or the ''Standard Typefaces for Chinese Characters'' () is the Standard language, standardized form of Chinese characters set by the Ministry of Education (Republic of China), Ministry of Education of th ...

and Hong Kong's

List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters The List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters () is a list of 4762 commonly used Chinese characters and their standardized forms prescribed by the Hong Kong Education Bureau. The list is meant to be taught in primary and middle school ...

use and (the third stroke is horizontal) as the standard forms, while other alternative forms (e.g. /𩙿, /) are still rather prevalent in publishing. In modern Japanese, (third stroke is horizontal) and are seen as the traditional/orthodox forms. The ''

shinjitai are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946. Some of the new forms found in ''shinjitai'' are also found in Simplified Chinese characters, but ''shinjitai'' is generally not as extensiv ...

'' reform changed the third stroke in as an individual character or as a non-left component to a short horizontal line (); changed the left component form to . In principle, these changes apply only to '' jōyō kanji'' (more specifically, ''jōyō kanji'' before 2010 revision; some characters added in 2010 were not simplified); the traditional form is used for '' hyōgai kanji''.

Literature

External links

Unihan Database - U+98DF
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