十
Radical 24 (U+2F17)
十 (U+5341) "ten"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shí
Bopomofo:ㄕˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:shyr
Wade–Giles:shih2
Cantonese Yale:sahp
Jyutping:sap6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:cha̍p (col.)
si̍p (lit.)
Japanese Kana:ジュウ jū (on'yomi)
と to / とお tō (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:십 sip
Names
Japanese name(s):十偏 jūhen
Hangul:열 yeol
Stroke order animation

Radical 24 or radical ten (十部) meaning ten, complete, or perfect, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

十 is also the 6th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

十 is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now 針/针), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape.

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0十
+1卂 千 卄
+2卅 卆JP nonstandard (=卒) 升 午
+3卉 半
+4卋 (=世 -> 一) 卌 卍 华SC (=華 -> 艸) 协SC (=協) 卐 毕SC (=畢 -> 田)
+5
+6丧SC (=喪 -> 口) 卑 卒 卓 協 单SC (=單 -> 口) 卖SC (=賣 -> 貝)
+7南
+8単
+9卙
+10博
+19卛 颦SC (=顰 -> 頁)

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.
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
  • 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

See also

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