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s (214 radicals total) composed of 2

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. When appearing at the right side of a Chinese character, it usually transforms into 刂. In the ''

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'', there are 377 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

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. is also the 22nd indexing component in the ''

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'' predominantly adopted by

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dictionaries published in

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. Two associated indexing components, and , are affiliated to the principal indexing component .

Evolution

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Oracle bone script Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC. Inscriptions were made by carving characters into oracle bones, usually either the shoulder bones of oxen or the plastrons of turtl ...

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Bronze script Chinese bronze inscriptions, also referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, comprise Chinese writing made in several styles on ritual bronzes mainly during the Late Shang dynasty () and Western Zhou dynasty (771 BC). Types of bron ...

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Large seal script The term large seal script traditionally refers to written Chinese dating from before the Qin dynasty—now used either narrowly to the writing of the Western and early Eastern Zhou dynasty (403 BCE), or more broadly to also include the ...

character File:刀-seal.svg,

Small seal script The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used i ...

character

Derived characters

Sinogram

As an isolated character it is one of the

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or a kanji taught in second grade.

References

Literature

* *Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,

External links

Unihan Database - U+5200
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022 Kyōiku kanji