Radical 36

The radical 36 with the meaning " evening " (picture of a moon radical 74/2 above the horizon) is one of 31 traditional radicals of Chinese writing, which consist of three strokes.

There are more radical characters that look similar to this sign.

The seal script form of this character shows a clear resemblance to the character月( = moon) recognize. However夕missing a slash. So夕represents a reduced moon, which still does not seem so bright. The ruled by夕characters are usually also in this context of meaning :夜( = night) ,梦( = dream ) ,飧( = dinner).

多(duo = a lot) is a combined mark: Dusk joins at dusk. However, there is another explanation. Thus derives多( = a lot) of the two one above the other components肉( = meat ) from whose oracle-bone shape drastically the character夕similar. Meat and meat above the bottom = a lot of meat = a lot.

Radical 78歹(= poor ) bears down though apparently also the radical夕, but have neither origin nor significance of the character something to do with this radical. The condensed character岁( = year of age) and罗( = safety net )夕has only a general discriminant function.

夕acts sometimes as a sound carrier, for example in汐( = evening tide, with three drops of water氵as bearers of meaning ) ,穸( in窀穸= dead pit, with the cave穴in the second character as bearers of meaning ) and矽( = silicon, with the stone 石as carrier sense ).

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 36

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical is 36 encoded code point number 12,067 (U 2 F23 ).

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