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Radical 142
Chinese character radical From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Radical 142 or radical insect (虫部) meaning "insect" or "worm" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1067 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
虫 is also the 131st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
The character 虫 models a worm. To derive from this, characters meaning creeping animals such as reptiles, insects, worms, amphibians, and shellfish are included in this radical. The character 虫 is used as the simplified form of 蟲 in Simplified Chinese and Japanese and occasionally in Traditional Chinese.
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Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Small seal script character
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The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]
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