Radical 173

Radical 173 meaning " rain " is one of nine of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by eight strokes.

With 45 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are quite a lot of characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

Radical rain takes only the long mark list traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 173 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 204th place.

The character evolved from a pictogram that shows how four drops of water falling from a cloud that hangs like a tank in the sky. As a symbol carrier provides雨his characters into the field of meaning rain and other meteorological phenomena such as in雪( = snow) ,雷( = thunder trigram ) ,云( = clouds ) ,雾( = fog) and霜( = frost ). 零(= zero ) originally referred slowly falling rain, therefore雨in the head. 霍( = suddenly ) was first written down with two birds隹 隹. When it rains, fly to many birds and sound of this Aufflatterns should reflect霍霍( huohuo ).

The carrier sense rain雨in霍results from this context. 霸( = bully ) originally described in the lunar calendar, the first two or three days of the month on which the moon is still barely see. The pronunciation霸( ba) was there p. Therefore, the mark consists of the Moon月( yu ) and expressed as a volume carrier components雨and革( = leather). Xu Shen explained this in his Shuowen Jiezi: Rain soaked the leather. It follows that the rain雨marked霸(ba = tyrant ) does not occur as such, but only as part of the original, no longer used sound carrier component from雨and革.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 173

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 173 under the code point number 12,204 (U 2 FAC).

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