Radical 137

Radical 137 meaning " boat " is one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by six strokes.

With 37 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are quite a lot of characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "Boot" takes only the long -mark - list traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 137 position. In modern abbreviation dictionaries may find a completely different place. In the New Sino- German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, there is, for example, to 182 place.

The bronze font character represents the image of a ship, but already in the following seal script form that is no longer recognizable. As bearers of meaning in the composite sign is舟( zhou ) this in the field of meaning " water transport " such as舢( in :舢板= Sampan ) ,航( = boat) ,舫( = boat) ,舱( = enclosure ) ,舰( = warship ) ,艇( ting = light boat ). In all these characters舟acts as a symbol, the other component as a sound carrier. As a sound carrier舟only occurs in some today very uncustomary characters. 盘( = plate ) is a truncated character that actually contains般as a sound carrier. 舟in the shortened version is thus only the rest of the former sound carrier.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 137

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 137 under the code point number 12,168 (U 2 F88 ).

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