Radical 200 or radical hemp () meaning " hemp" or " flax" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11

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 ...

. Historically, it is the Chinese word for

cannabis ''Cannabis'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae. The number of species within the genus is disputed. Three species may be recognized: '' Cannabis sativa'', '' C. indica'', and '' C. ruderalis''. Alternative ...

. 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 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 193rd 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. ...

Evolution

File:麻-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:麻-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:麻-seal.svg, Small seal script character

Derived characters

Variant forms

麻-mingti-kangxi.svg, Radical 200 in the ''Kangxi Dictionary'' Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (1).svg, A variant form Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (2).svg, Standard form in Traditional Chinese Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (3).svg, Standard form in Japanese Regular Style CJKV Radical 200 (4).svg, Standard form in Simplified Chinese

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 麻 is a Jōyō kanji, or a

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

used in writing the

Japanese language is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been ...

. It is a secondary school kanji. It is part of taima (當麻), a Japanese word for

References

Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+9EBB
{{Simplified Chinese radicals Kanji

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