Radical 184 or radical eat () meaning "

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" or "

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" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes. In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', 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'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese 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 Chin ...

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

Evolution

File:食-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character File:食-bronze.svg, Bronze script character File:食-bigseal.svg, Large seal script 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. In China, '' xin zixing'' 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 and Hong Kong's List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters 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 extensi ...

'' 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
{{Simplified Chinese radicals

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