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矛 (U+77DB) "spear" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | máo | |
Bopomofo: | ㄇㄠˊ | |
Wade–Giles: | mao2 | |
Cantonese Yale: | maau4 | |
Jyutping: | maau4 | |
Japanese Kana: | ボウ bō / ム mu (on'yomi) ほこ hoko (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 모 mo | |
Names | ||
Chinese name(s): | 矛字旁 máozìpáng | |
Japanese name(s): | 矛/ほこ hoko 矛偏/ほこへん hokohen | |
Hangul: | 창 chang | |
Stroke order animation | ||
Radical 110 or radical spear (矛部) meaning "spear" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 65 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
矛 is also the 121st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Bronze script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 矛 |
+4 | 矜 |
+5 | 矝 |
+7 | 矞 矟 |
+8 | 矠 |
+20 | 矡 |
Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.