Radical 128

Radical 128 meaning " ear" is 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 "ear" mark only takes in the Long List traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 128 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, to 163 place.

The result is耳from the image of a human ear, which can be clearly seen in the oracle font -shape. As a symbol carrier provides耳his characters listen to the context and ear such as取( qu = fetch, take ), which consists of the ear and the hand (又you) and its primal meaning " cut off ears" is. A big ear has its own character, which is composed of耳and大( da = large) :耷( da = big ear ). This is both as a combined signal with a piktophonetisches大both sense as well as a sound carrier. 耳is carrier sense in many piktophonetischen characters as盯 聍( Dingning = earwax ). In闻( wen = hear ) the ear耳also acts as a symbol, the door门(men ) as a sound carrier. In聋( long = deaf ) is the dragon (龙long) sound and the ear naturally impart meaning. 聆( = eavesdrop) with令( ling ) as a sound carrier ,聱( in :佶 屈 聱牙= tongue- capacity, for Chinese ears rather precariously ) with敖( ao ) as a sound carrier. All these characters have ultimately to do with listening.

耳but also occurs as a sound carrier, for example, in洱( he in :普洱茶Pu'ercha, a type of tea ) ,珥( he = pearl ring ) ,铒(he, the chemical element erbium ). In茸in :鹿茸( Stag - rung ) is not below the ear, as you might think, but as耳rest of聪( cong ), the right part (总) was omitted. Above, a grass head (艹) was added. The聪( cong ) residue (耳) now works as the carrier in茸( rng ). 聪but also has to do with the ear: it means hearing.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 128

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 128 under the code point number 12,159 (U 2 F7F ).

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