老
Radical 125 (U+2F7C)
老 (U+8001) "old"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:lǎo
Bopomofo:ㄌㄠˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:lao
Wade–Giles:lao3
Cantonese Yale:lóuh
Jyutping:lou5
Japanese Kana:ロウ rou (on'yomi)
おいる oiru
ふける fukeru
(kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:로 ro
Names
Chinese name(s):老字頭/老字头 lǎozìtóu
Japanese name(s):老/おい oi
Hangul:늙을 neulgeul
Stroke order animation

Radical 125 or radical old (老部) meaning "old" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

老 is also the 123rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 耂 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
−2耂
+0老 考
+4耄 者 耆
+5耇 耈 (=耇) 耉 (=耇)
+6耊 (=耋) 耋

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji[1]


References

  1. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

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