Radical 84

Radical 84 is with the meaning " vapor " is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with four strokes.

With 9 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon. This number, however, has greatly increased in the 20th century, as many gases have come at the chemical elements to which all are written with the radical "steam".

The radical steam takes only the long mark list traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 84 position. In modern abbreviation dictionaries he can find a completely different place. In the New Sino- German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, he is, for example, at 109th place.

The character for air, steam and gas shows three clouds, silhouetted against the sky. The original meaning of气is thin cloud, from which the context of meaning of the radical derived: gas as in氢( qing = hydrogen) ,氧( yang = oxygen) ,氮( dan = nitrogen). In a few cases气works as the carrier, for example in饩(qi = sacrificial animal ). The sign汽(qi = steam) contains the three drops of water left and right, the radical 84 ,气, which acts as a symbol and as a sound carrier. 忾( in敌 忾= hatred against the enemy ) contains the heart (忄radical 61) and the gas气gas in the heart = anger. 忾can also be pronounced xi means, then sigh and气(qi ) acts only as a sound carrier.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 84

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 84 of the Code Point number 12,115 (U 2 F53 ).

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