Radical 109

Radical 109 meaning " eye" is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by five strokes.

With 116 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The character evolved from the pictorial representation of a human eye. First drawn from the front, the pupil in the center, the eye was turned sideways and later with the use of the writing brush, the character was cornered and lost its uniqueness. Most of the radical acts as bearers of meaning in the composite sign and then adjusts see and eye,睁( = eyes open ), such as in眉( = eyebrow ) ,眶( = orbital ) ,盲( = blind) this in the context of ,睹 ( = see, perceive ) ,眯( = blink ) and瞪( = rigid ). In相( = look ) to find the components目( = eye) and木( = tree). This goes back to a sentence in the Book of Changes: "On Earth we see especially trees ". So found eye (目) and tree (木) for combined characters相( xiang ) together, which originally meant to see.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 109

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 109 is coded under the code point number 12,140 (U 2 F6C ).

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