Radical 5 or radical second () meaning "second" is one of 6 of the 214

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 Traditi ...

s that are composed of only one

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. However, this radical is mainly used to categorize miscellaneous characters otherwise not belonging to any radical, mainly featuring a hook or fold, and 乙 is the character with the least amount of strokes. In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system, 乙 represents the second Celestial stem (天干 ''tiāngān''). In the '' Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 42 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this

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. In mainland China, along with other 14 associated indexing components, including , , etc., are affiliated to a new radical (), which is the 5th principal indexing component in the '' Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries.GF 0011-2009 汉字部首表 ( The Table of Indexing Chinese Character Component ) Usually, only several out of the 15 variant components are listed under radical in dictionary indexes.

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 plastrons used in pyromantic divination. Oracle bone script was used in the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest kno ...

character File:乙-bronze.svg,

Bronze script Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as ''zhōng'' bells and '' dǐng'' tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd mi ...

character File:乙-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character File:乙-seal.svg,

Small seal script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty. Name ...

character

Derived characters

In the Unihan Database, ( Japanese simplified form of ) falls under Radical 5 + 10 strokes, while other variants of (including Simplified Chinese ) fall under Radical 213 ( "turtle"), causing an inconsistency. However, in most Japanese dictionaries, is treated as a variant of Radical 213 () and indexed Radical 213 + 0 strokes.

Literature

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References

External links

Unihan Database - U+4E59
{{Simplified Chinese radicals

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