Radical 123

Radical 123 is with the meaning " sheep, goat ," one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by six strokes.

With 26 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are relatively few characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "goat" will only in the long list of traditional character - radicals, which consists of 214 radicals, the 123rd 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 157th place.

The character evolved from the image of a goat or a sheep from the front with their horns. Oracle bones and bronze font - form show the head of a sheep with two curved horns above. The two lines on the current character羊still remember.

Variants of the radical, the left -sided shape in着( = touch ) or羚( = antelope ) and the head position as in美( mei = beautiful ) and羔( = lamb). The first of these variants is sometimes called斜 尾 羊( xieweiyang = skew -tailed sheep ), the second羊 字 头( yangzitou = sheep's head ) or没 尾 羊( meiweiyang = tailless sheep).

善( = kind ) contains羊, but which is closed at the bottom by a fourth horizontal line so that it looks like its own radical. The helical tail variant as in羌( Qiang, a nationality name)养( = feed )差( in :差错= error) ,羞( in :羞耻xiuchi = shame ) or着( in :着火Zhaohuo = catch fire ) comes so often that older reference works they often led separately.

The Goat (未wèi ) or the Sheep (羊yang) applies according to the Chinese calendar as great. For her the Yin energy predominates.

In Western books about Chinese astrology sometimes reads " sheep " instead of " goat", what is the real meaning of the sign.

Sheep or goats years are:

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 123

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 123 is coded under the code point number 12,154 (U 2 F7A ).

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