Radical 96

Radical 96 with the meaning " jade, nephrite " is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by five strokes. With 104 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The sign shows three jade pieces tied together. The point is it different from the character for "King ", whose symbol was the jade. The character王for King, with four strokes, is considered variant or character connection to written with five strokes radical 96玉Jade.

There are two explanations for why of three horizontal strokes and a vertical bar was a king. Xu Shen leads in his work Shuowen jiezi (说文解字) to王from: "王wang, the one to whom everything belongs on earth."

Dong Zhongshu, a later character researchers defined:

The three horizontal strokes accordingly represent heaven, earth and man, the vertical bar, which they linked, and the form王( wang ) form the king, to whom everything belongs to the earth.

Zuo Min'an (左 民 安), however, says in his work Liehua Hanzi (汉字 例 话Chinese Characters / examples and explanations ):

This derivation has for sure the seal script form of王actually resembles the image of an ax.

In the composite character王( wang ) often occurs as a sound carrier as in汪( wang deep and wide waters),枉( wang crooked, oblique) ,旺( wang flourishing, lush ) ,狂( kuang insane ) ,皇( huang Emperor ) ,匡( kuang correct ).

As bearers of meaning acts王( wang ) rare, but for example in闰(run, in :闰月runyue leap month ). Stirred Here王( wang ) of the custom here that the Emperor had on the first day of the lunar calendar perform the ritual of Ersttagsopfers. In normal months this took place within the temple, in the intercalary month but before the large gate. Therefore were门( = gate, door) and王( wang king, ruler ) to components of the sign闰(run): The King in the door means leap month.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 96

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 96 of the Code Point number 12,127 (U 2 F5F ).

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