Radical 88

Radical 88 is with the meaning "father" is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with four strokes.

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

The radical "father" will only in the long list of traditional character - radicals, which consists of 214 radicals, the 88th 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, at 108th place.

The character evolved from the representation of a hand holding a stick, the symbol of paternal authority. Some Chinese experts certainly think that the original form of父was斧( = ax ). Still others may not see it in the father's hand on the stick, but a tool such as an awl. 父, as they say, was originally a prisoner, and the sign was only later become a positive term for men, and finally for father.

In composite character represents the semantic field父father forth such as in爹( = father) or爷( = grandfather). As a sound carrier父occurs in the character斧( = ax ) and釜( = cooking kettle ). The latter consists of父and金( = metal), and in the character of the upper part of金merges with the bottom of父.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 88

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 88 is coded under the code point number 12,119 (U 2 F57 ).

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