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Chinese character radical From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radical 65 or radical branch (支部) meaning "branch" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 支 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 支 (U+652F) "branch" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | zhī | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄓ | |
| Wade–Giles: | chih1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | jī | |
| Jyutping: | zi1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | chi | |
| Japanese Kana: | シ shi (on'yomi) ささ-える sasa-eru (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 지 ji | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 支字旁 zhīzìpáng 支字底 zhīzìdǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 支える/ささえる 支繞/しにょう shinyō 枝繞/えだにょう edanyō 十又/じゅうまた jūmata | |
| Hangul: | 지탱할 jitaenghal | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
支 is also the 65th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In the Japanese educational system the character 支 is a Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fifth grade kanji.[1]
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