Radical 42

The radical 42 with the meaning of "small" is one of 31 traditional radicals of Chinese writing, which consist of three strokes.

In the upper position over the components or冖冂the two short-side bars extend toward each other below this radical instead apart. This is the case with the abbreviation尝( = try ) and尚( = respect ). When characters光( = beam ), however, is in the seal script form above nor the fire火be seen.

Examples of compositions with this radical are:

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 42

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical is 42 encoded code point number 12,073 (U 2 F29).

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