Radical 99

Radical 99 "sweet" is the meaning of a of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by five strokes.

With three combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon. Modern reference works such as the Xiandai Hanyu Cidian and the Xinhua Dictionary not lead甘as radical. There it is under its first line, look up the horizontal stroke一.

The radical "sweet" will only in the long list of traditional character - radicals, which consists of 214 radicals, the 99th position. In modern abbreviation dictionaries may find a completely different place. In the New Sino- German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, there is, for example, at 135th place.

In the seal script form a mouth can be clearly seen, in which a small horizontal line indicates that something is in your mouth. And food in the mouth pleasing effect.

In the composite sign but甘acts mainly as a sound carrier, as in:

甜( = sweet) is a combined mark consisting of the components radical 135舌( = tongue ) and radical 99甘( = sweet) is composed.

The name of the western Chinese province of Gansu ( Gansu甘肃or甘肃) has nothing directly to do with the meaning "sweet" something. He Instead it will be from the first syllables of the cities Ganzhou ( Zhangye ) and Suzhou ( Jiuquan ).

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 99

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 99 of the Code Point number 12.130 (U 2 F62 ).

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