Radical 5

The radical 5 meaning " hook ", " sickle " is one of six of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese writing, which consist of only a single stroke.

With 13 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are few characters which can be found at this radical in the lexicon. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters.

The radical 5 belongs to a curved line (钩GOU ) to the eight principles of the character永(永字八法Yǒngzì Bāfǎ ), are the basis of Chinese calligraphy.

The character evolved from the pictorial representation of a fishing hook or sickle. In the latter case, it could play a curved blade with a short handle. Under certain circumstances, it could also be a sapling sprouting from the earth.

As an independent character radical is 5 still used with the meaning Heaven 2 strain. He stands in this case for the number two.

There are also variants乚(U 4 E5A similar to Katakanaレ"re" ) and乛(U 4 E 5 B ).

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 5

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical 5 under the codepoint number 12,036 (U 2 F04) is coded.

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