Radical 174 or radical blue () meaning "

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" or "

green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a com ...

" or "

black Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without chroma, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness.Eva Heller, ''P ...

" (see '' Distinguishing blue from green in Chinese'') is one of the 9

Kangxi radical The ''Kangxi'' radicals (), also known as ''Zihui'' radicals, are a set of 214 Chinese character radicals, radicals that were collated in the 18th-century ''Kangxi Dictionary'' to aid categorization of Chinese characters. They are primarily sor ...

s (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes. It is also the character representing the color ao in Japanese, a general term covering both blue and green. In the ''

Kangxi Dictionary The ''Kangxi Dictionary'' () is a Chinese dictionary published in 1716 during the High Qing, considered from the time of its publishing until the early 20th century to be the most authoritative reference for written Chinese characters. Wanting ...

'', there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. The ''

xin zixing The ''xin zixing'' () are a set of Standard language, standardized Chinese character forms. It is based on the 1964 "List of character forms of Common Chinese characters for Publishing" () as compared to ''jiu zixing''. The standard is based on ...

'' form, , is the 168th indexing component in the ''

Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components ''The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' () is a lexicography, 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 ...

'' 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), according to a well-founded ordering. Examples include: ...

dictionaries published in

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Evolution

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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 ...

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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

Variant forms

This radical character has different forms and stroke orders in different languages and different individual characters. (lower part is 円) is used in traditional Ming typefaces as well as in the ''

'', but it rarely appears in handwritten scripts compared to . In modern Chinese, mainland China's ''

'' (applied to chiefly Simplified Chinese, but may also be used for Traditional Chinese) 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 middl ...

'' (Traditional Chinese) adopted (the lower part's first stroke is vertical) that resembles the written form, while Taiwan's

Standard Form of National Characters The ''Standard Form of National Characters'' or the ''Standard Typefaces for Chinese Characters'' () is the standardized form of Chinese characters set by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Lists There are three lists ...

(Traditional Chinese) adopted a slightly different form, (the lower part is with the first stroke left-falling). In modern Japanese, ''

jōyō kanji The are those kanji listed on the , officially announced by the Japanese Ministry of Education. The current List of jōyō kanji, list of 2,136 characters was issued in 2010. It is a slightly modified version of the tōyō kanji, kanji, which ...

'' adopts the handwritten form and applies it to printing typefaces, while is used for ''

hyōgai kanji , also known as , is a term for Japanese kanji outside the two major lists of kanji, which are taught in primary and secondary school, and the kanji, which are additional kanji that are officially allowed for use in personal names. The term ...

''.

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent

Chinese character Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represent the only on ...

. It is one of the

kyōiku kanji The are kanji which Japanese elementary school students should learn from first through sixth grade. Also known as , these kanji are listed on the . The table is developed and maintained by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT). Although t ...

or kanji taught in elementary school in

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. It is a first grade kanji.

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Unihan Database - U+9751
{{Simplified Chinese radicals Kyōiku kanji 174 168