Radical 81 or radical compare (比部) meaning "compare" or "compete" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 比 | ||
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| 比 (U+6BD4) "compare, compete" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | bǐ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄅㄧˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | pi3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | béi | |
| Jyutping: | bei2 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | pí | |
| Japanese Kana: | ヒ hi (on'yomi) くら-べる kura-beru (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 비 bi | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Top) 比字頭/比字头 bǐzìtóu (Bottom) 比字底 bǐzìdǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 並びヒ/ならびひ narabihi 比べる/くらべる kuraberu | |
| Hangul: | 견줄 gyeonjul | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 21 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
比 is also the 71st indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 比 |
| +2 | 毕SC (=畢 -> 田) |
| +5 | 毖 毗 毘 |
| +6 | 毙SC (=斃 -> 攴) |
| +13 | 毚 |
Literature
edit- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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