Radical 24 meaning ten, complete, or perfect is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes. "十" is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now 針), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
Characters with Radical 24
strokes |
characters |
0 |
十 |
1 stroke |
卂, 千, 卄 |
2 strokes |
卅, 卆, 升, 午 |
3 strokes |
卉, 半 |
4 strokes |
卋, 卌, 卍, 华, 协, 卐, 毕 |
5 strokes |
|
6 strokes |
丧, 卑, 卒, 卓, 協, 单, 卖 |
7 strokes |
南 |
8 strokes |
|
9 strokes |
卙 |
10 strokes |
博 |
19 strokes |
卛, 颦 |
Literature
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- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
External links
See also
- KangXi: page 155, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
- Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9