Radical 80

Radical 80, " not " is meaning " mother " is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with four strokes.

With 5 characters compounds in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The seal script form shows a woman (女= nǚ ) which is added a horizontal line :母. This variant has the meaning "mother". The two points symbolize the breasts of a nursing mother. These points were later to a vertical line. 毋and母were originally a character. " Not prohibited " within the meaning of毋and母as the "mother ": Only bronze font made ​​of the母毋before later both forms were used.

每( mei = each, every, each ) wore in the original form of the grass head (艹; radical 140) and meant lushly growing grass. Later it was taken because of his same pronunciation as the character for the word " any ". ( Radical 8亠) written, the following default font (楷书kaishu ) then made the present form每it in the official script of the Han Dynasty was每( mei) with the treasure lid.

In not a few composite characters每( mei) works as the carrier, for example in梅( mei = apricot) or霉( mei = mold). ( Sorry hui =) In悔has每( mei) an advanced sound carrier function. 母(mu ) itself also acts as a sound carrier as in拇( in :拇指Muzhi = thumb) or姆( in保姆baomu = nanny ).

毒( du = poison) was originally the grass head (艹) and including one from土above and母(mu) formed the bottom component. The meaning of this sign was poisonous plant. 母(mu) is only general component.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 80

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical is 80 encoded code point number 12,111 (U 2 F4F ).

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