Radical 142

Radical 142 is with the meaning "insect", "worm" is one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by six strokes. With 197 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "worm" will only in the long list of traditional character - radicals, which consists of 214 radicals, the 142nd position. In modern abbreviation dictionaries he can find a completely different place. In the New Sino- German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, he is, for example, to 174 place.

The seal script character represents a multi-curved line represents a worm, why虫belongs to the category of pictograms. Originally the character was written and meant虺poisonous snake. The insect was虫characters. In today's虫both meanings are combined, so that in addition to insects, worms and the like creatures snakes to the semantic field of the radical include蚂蚁( = ant ) ,蚤( = flea) ,蚯蚓( = earthworm ) ,蝌蚪( = tadpole ) and蛹 ( = doll of a caterpillar ), but also screw (蜗牛), Shell (蛏) and shrimp (虾).

虽( in :虽然= though) is a shortened, resulting from虫and ( to his mouth口shortened )唯composed as a sound carrier. Its original meaning was that of a lizard-like Kriechtieres. 强( = strong ) was originally the name for a small beetle. The notation in the Great seal script was above a疆without the earth土(bottom left), which functioned as a sound carrier, and down twice虫.

Sometimes虫also occurs as sound carriers such as ( = melt ) in融, composed of鬲( = old dreifüßiger cooking pot ) and the sound carrier虫.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 142

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 142 is coded under the code point number 12,173 (U 2 F8D ).

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