Radical 170

Radical 170 meaning " hill dam " is one of nine traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by eight strokes. With 81 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found at this radical in the dictionary.

Radical hill increases only in the long list of traditional character radicals consisting of 214 radicals 170 position. In modern abbreviation dictionaries he can find a completely different place. In the New Sino- German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, he is, for example, to 33 place.

Spelling variant :阝(identical with radical 163, but is always on the left. )

The primary function of the left ear is the sense of a sensor for different characters. These have of course nothing to do with ears, but very much with terrain and topography. For example:

Also the sign阿( = abet ) belongs to it, for it originally had the meaning big hill. 隐( = hide )隔( = separate ) ,障( = block ) derive their sense also from a bump or a depression in the terrain.

It is believed that Yin the name for the colder, north facing side of a hill and Yang was initially the name given to the warmer, south-facing side. Gradually, Yang was equated with sunlight, while Yin was associated with shadow. Soon it was derived from the fact that the sun is Yang himself, Earth and Moon, however, were Yin.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 170

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 170 under the code point number 12,201 (U 2 FA9 ).

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