Radical 113

Radical 113 meaning " ancestors, show worship " is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by five strokes.

With 63 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The character evolved from the pictorial representation of an altar. In the seal script form a T-shaped table can be seen, above which a short horizontal line indicates the offerings to the spirits. 示therefore has to do with ghosts Affairs, expresses mystery, superstition affiliated. Most governed by示characters have the semantic field " Religious, spirits" such as祭( ji = Commemoration organize, sacrifice ). It shows in his ancient seal form top left meat ( rou肉), right next to a hand (手shou ) and below the altar (示in its original form ). Here, then, the victims will be clearly indicated in the form of a combined character. 祟( sui = ghost ) is originally caused by spirits misfortune禁( jin = ban ) meant. 林(lin) acts only as a sound carrier. Among the characters that示included as a component, there are also those who have nothing to do with ghosts and matters of faith such as佘( Xu, a family name ), which originated from a similar-looking characters, and票( piao = card, list ), which originally looked different, in the lower part of the fire (火) led, and禀( bng report to a supervisor ) and others Here is示only general component.

Spelling variant of the radical :礻, is always left in compounds; 4 strokes. The variant礻is similar to Katakanaネ"ne".

The radical 113礻( five strokes ) should not be confused with the radical 145衤( six strokes ).

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 113

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 113 under the code point number 12,144 (U 2 F70 ).

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