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Radical 81

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← 80 Radical 81 (U+2F50) 82 →
(U+6BD4) "compare, compete"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄅㄧˇ
Wade–Giles:pi3
Cantonese Yale:béi
Jyutping:bei2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Japanese Kana:ヒ hi (on'yomi)
くら-べる kura-beru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:비 bi
Names
Chinese name(s):(Top) 比字頭/比字头 bǐzìtóu
(Bottom) 比字底 bǐzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):並びヒ/ならびひ narabihi
比べる/くらべる kuraberu
Hangul:견줄 gyeonjul
Stroke order animation

Radical 81 or radical compare (比部) meaning "compare" or "compete" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 71st 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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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+2 SC (= -> )
+5
+6 SC (= -> )
+13

Literature

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  • 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.
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