Radical 167

Radical 167 meaning " gold, metal, money " is one of nine traditional radicals of Chinese writing with eight strokes.

With 213 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary it very frequently occurs in the lexicon. Also in the Kangxi dictionary find themselves with 806 characters very many characters under this radical.

The pictogram shows four gold pieces or strips of metal in the earth. Above is a canopy. With the simplification of the sign only two gold grains are left. The modern abbreviation钅Although simplistic, but can still recognize its origin. With金/釒combinations of signs of U 91 D1 to钄U 9484 coded, then it with钅from U 9485 to U 9576镶.

As a carrier sense is this a radical connection with metal manufactures, such as

Characters that are written with this radical include, in the semantic field metalworking or metal object ::

The original meaning of错was ( incorrectly ) " gild " and it is written with this radical.

Metal is also one of the five elements and represents maturity, contraction, condensation, detachment, sinking.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 167

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 167 is coded under the code point number 12,198 (U 2 FO6 ).

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