Radical 24

The radical 24 with the meaning " ten " is one of the traditional 23 radicals of Chinese characters that are made ​​with two strokes.

With 17 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary it happens relatively rarely. The Kangxi Dictionary are 55 characters to see this radical.

When the first numbers were still playing with horizontal strokes, they wrote the number " ten " with a vertical line. Later, the character "one" and " ten " were combined to form a cross. The sign is removed similar to Katakanaナ"na".

In the so-called upper case to prevent counterfeiting, for example, checks or bank notes, the number is written ten拾.

The radical十also acts as a sound carrier, for example, in the following abbreviations:

Not so easy to spot it is ( = increase ) as a radical in升. As radical occurs in the following symbols:

Under this radical, the two swastika symbol卍卐and can be found. In Chinese culture, the swastika inside a circle, the character for the word "sun", without a circle (Ch卍,卐, WAN ) for myriad (10,000, " infinity ", actually: Chinese:万/万). The fact that the sign also means fertility figuratively, arises from the fact that it is found among the various peoples on sculptures of procreation and reproduction. If it appears on the packaging of China-made foods, this means that they are made ​​purely vegetarian.

Even the emblem of Falun Gong, a originating from China Qi Gong movement, contains several swastika symbols. It shows a red circle with a large golden swastika symbol (to the left angled = right-handed swastika ), which is enclosed by an orange ring with four other swastika symbols and four yin-yang symbols.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 24

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical is 24 encoded code point number 12,055 (U 2 F17 ).

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