[ { "no": 1, "radical": ["一"], "strokeCount": 1, "meaning": "one", "pinyin": "yī", "hanViet": "nhất", "frequency": 42, "examples": ["王", "丁", "七", "三"], "order": "%E4%B8%80-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-ACC-B00002.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%80-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%80-bronze.svg.png", "60px-ACC-B00014.svg.png", "60px-ACC-B00015.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%80-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%80-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%8C-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%80-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%80-bigseal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%80-clerical.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事): a horizontal stroke, indicating the number “one”." }, { "no": 2, "radical": ["丨"], "strokeCount": 1, "meaning": "line", "pinyin": "gǔn", "hanViet": "cổn", "frequency": 21, "examples": ["十", "中", "串", "丰"], "order": "%E4%B8%A8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E4%B8%A8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%A8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 3, "radical": ["丶"], "strokeCount": 1, "meaning": "dot", "pinyin": "zhǔ", "hanViet": "chủ", "frequency": 10, "examples": ["丸", "凡", "丹", "户"], "order": "%E4%B8%B6-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E4%B8%B6-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%B6-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 4, "radical": ["丿", "乀", "⺄"], "strokeCount": 1, "meaning": "slash", "pinyin": "piě", "hanViet": "phiệt", "frequency": 33, "examples": ["乂", "乃", "久", "八"], "order": "%E4%B8%BF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E4%B8%BF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B8%BF-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 5, "radical": ["乙", "乚", "乛"], "strokeCount": 1, "meaning": "second", "pinyin": "yǐ", "hanViet": "ất", "frequency": 42, "examples": ["九", "乞", "也"], "order": "%E4%B9%99-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E4%B9%99-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B9%99-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B9%99-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B9%99-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%B9%99-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 6, "radical": ["亅"], "strokeCount": 1, "meaning": "hook", "pinyin": "jué", "hanViet": "quyết", "frequency": 19, "examples": ["了", "矛", "事"], "order": "%E4%BA%85-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E4%BA%85-seal.svg.png"], "note": "" }, { "no": 7, "radical": ["二"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "two", "pinyin": "èr", "hanViet": "nhị", "frequency": 29, "examples": ["貳", "于", "云", "些"], "order": "%E4%BA%8C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E4%BA%8C-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%8C-bronze.svg.png", "60px-ACC-b18623.svg.png", "60px-ACC-b18626.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%8C-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%8C-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%8D-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%8C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%8C-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事) - two parallel lines. Compare with 一, one line meaning one, 三, three lines meaning three, and 亖, four lines meaning four. Duplication of 一 (“one”)." }, { "no": 8, "radical": ["亠"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "lid", "pinyin": "tóu", "hanViet": "đầu", "frequency": 38, "examples": ["方", "亡", "亢", "交"], "order": "%E4%BA%A0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E4%BA%A0-seal.svg.png"], "note": "" }, { "no": 9, "radical": ["人", "亻"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "man", "pinyin": "rén", "hanViet": "nhân (đứng, nón)", "frequency": 794, "examples": ["你", "什", "仁", "仇"], "order": "%E4%BA%BA-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E4%BA%BA-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%BA-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%BA-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%BA-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%BA-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%BA-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%BA-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%84%BF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%BA-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BA%BA-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – side view of a standing man, highlighting the arms and legs. Compare 大." }, { "no": 10, "radical": ["儿"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "son, legs", "pinyin": "ér", "hanViet": "nhi/nhân (đi)", "frequency": 52, "simplified": "(pr. 兒)", "examples": ["兒", "兀", "允", "元"], "order": "%E5%84%BF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%84%BF-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%84%BF-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%84%BF-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%84%BF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%84%BF-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a standing person. A radical form of 人. Also simplified from 兒 (elimination of 臼)." }, { "no": 11, "radical": ["入"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "enter", "pinyin": "rù", "hanViet": "nhập", "frequency": 28, "examples": ["內", "全", "兩", "汆"], "order": "%E5%85%A5-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%85%A5-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%A5-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%A5-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%A5-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%A5-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事) - an arrowhead indicating \"to enter\". Compare 人 (rén)." }, { "no": 12, "radical": ["八", "丷"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "eight", "pinyin": "bā", "hanViet": "bát", "frequency": 44, "examples": ["公", "六", "兮", "穴"], "order": "%E5%85%AB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%85%AB-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%AB-bronze.svg.png", "60px-ACC-b00945.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%AB-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%AB-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%AB-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%85%AB-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 八 is two bent lines indicating the original meaning of \"to divide\". This character is later borrowed to mean \"eight\" because of homonymy, making the original meaning obsolete (now represented by 別)." }, { "no": 13, "radical": ["冂"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "wide", "pinyin": "jiōng", "hanViet": "quynhkhuynh", "frequency": 50, "examples": ["冇", "冊", "冉", "肉"], "order": "%E5%86%82-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%86%82-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%86%82-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%86%82-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 14, "radical": ["冖"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "cloth cover", "pinyin": "mì", "hanViet": "mịch", "frequency": 30, "examples": ["冗", "冠", "冥", "運"], "order": "%E5%86%96-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%86%96-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%86%96-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%86%96-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 15, "radical": ["冫"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "ice", "pinyin": "bīng", "hanViet": "băng", "frequency": 115, "examples": ["冬", "冰", "冶", "凉"], "order": "%E5%86%AB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E4%BB%8C-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BB%8C-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BB%8C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E4%BB%8C-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Radical form of 仌." }, { "no": 16, "radical": ["几"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "table", "pinyin": "jī", "hanViet": "kỷ", "frequency": 38, "examples": ["風", "殳", "凡", "凱"], "order": "%E5%87%A0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%87%A0-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%87%A0-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%87%A0-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – stool (viewed from the side)." }, { "no": 17, "radical": ["凵"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "receptacle", "pinyin": "kǎn", "hanViet": "khảm", "frequency": 23, "examples": ["凶", "凸", "凹", "齒"], "order": "%E5%87%B5-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%87%B5-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%87%B5-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%87%B5-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%87%B5-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a cave" }, { "no": 18, "radical": ["刀", "刂", "⺈"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "knife", "pinyin": "dāo", "hanViet": "đao", "frequency": 377, "examples": ["刁", "解", "分", "劍"], "order": "%E5%88%80-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%88%80-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%88%80-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%88%80-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%88%80-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%88%80-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%88%80-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 19, "radical": ["力"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "power", "pinyin": "lì", "hanViet": "lực", "frequency": 163, "examples": ["加", "功", "劣", "男"], "order": "%E5%8A%9B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8A%9B-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8A%9B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8A%9B-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8A%9B-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8A%9B-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8A%9B-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8A%9B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8A%9B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – alternative interpretation, either an arm bending out from the side of the body, or a plough." }, { "no": 20, "radical": ["勹"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "wrap", "pinyin": "bāo", "hanViet": "bao", "frequency": 64, "examples": ["包", "勺", "勻", "勾"], "order": "%E5%8B%B9-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8B%B9-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8B%B9-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8B%B9-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 21, "radical": ["匕"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "spoon", "pinyin": "bǐ", "hanViet": "chủy", "frequency": 19, "examples": ["化", "北", "匙", "比"], "order": "%E5%8C%95-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8C%95-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%95-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%95-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%95-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%95-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%95-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 22, "radical": ["匚"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "box", "pinyin": "fāng", "hanViet": "phương", "frequency": 64, "examples": ["匿", "區", "巨", "匠"], "order": "%E5%8C%9A-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8C%9A-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%9A-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%9A-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%9A-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 23, "radical": ["匸"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "hiding enclosure", "pinyin": "xǐ/xì", "hanViet": "hệ", "frequency": 17, "examples": ["亡", "匹", "匼", "匽"], "order": "%E5%8C%B8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8C%B8-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%B8-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%B8-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%B8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8C%B8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 24, "radical": ["十"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "ten", "pinyin": "shí", "hanViet": "thập", "frequency": 55, "examples": ["千", "木", "卅", "升"], "order": "%E5%8D%81-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8D%81-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%81-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%81-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%81-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%81-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%81-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%81-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%81-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%81-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Unlike 一, which was one horizontal stroke meaning one, 十 was originally simply a vertical stroke. In later forms 一 was added, forming a cross." }, { "no": 25, "radical": ["卜"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "divination", "pinyin": "bǔ", "hanViet": "bốc", "frequency": 45, "examples": ["下", "上", "卡", "占"], "order": "%E5%8D%9C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8D%9C-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%9C-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%9C-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%9C-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%9C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%9C-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Perhaps a pictogram (象形) of a crack in an oracle bone, used for divination in ancient China. Officially adopted as the simplified form of 蔔 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956." }, { "no": 26, "radical": ["卩", "㔾"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "seal (device)", "pinyin": "jié", "hanViet": "tiết", "frequency": 40, "examples": ["即", "卬", "卷", "夗"], "order": "%E5%8D%A9-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8D%A9-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%A9-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8D%A9-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a kneeling person." }, { "no": 27, "radical": ["厂"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "cliff", "pinyin": "hǎn[1]", "hanViet": "hán", "frequency": 129, "simplified": "(pr. 廠)", "examples": ["厄", "原", "厚", "厰"], "order": "%E5%8E%82-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8E%82-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8E%82-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8E%82-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8E%82-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 28, "radical": ["厶"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "private", "pinyin": "sī", "hanViet": "khư", "frequency": 40, "examples": ["台", "公", "去", "參"], "order": "%E5%8E%B6-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8E%B6-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8E%B6-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8E%B6-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8E%B6-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事) – revolving around oneself – original character for 私 (“selfish; private”). According to Han Feizi, which was referenced in Shuowen: Compare 公 (“public”)." }, { "no": 29, "radical": ["又"], "strokeCount": 2, "meaning": "again", "pinyin": "yòu", "hanViet": "hựu", "frequency": 91, "examples": ["叉", "及", "友", "取"], "order": "%E5%8F%88-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8F%88-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%88-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%88-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%88-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%88-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a right hand. Original form of 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs, “right”)." }, { "no": 30, "radical": ["口"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "mouth", "pinyin": "kǒu", "hanViet": "khẩu", "frequency": 1146, "examples": ["哎", "古", "只", "品"], "order": "%E5%8F%A3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%8F%A3-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%A3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%A3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%A3-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%A3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%8F%A3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – resembles an open mouth. In the oracle bone script, radical 口 is used for characters having abstract meanings. Such a character can have a figurative meaning derived from the phonetic part, e.g. 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs, “right”) = 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs, “right hand”) + 口 and 𪪺 (“strong; powerful”) = 弓 (OC *kʷɯŋ, “bow”) + 口, or be an unrelated borrowing, e.g. 否 (OC *brɯʔ, *pɯʔ, “no”) = 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ', “calyx”) + 口." }, { "no": 31, "radical": ["囗"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "enclosure", "pinyin": "wéi", "hanViet": "vi", "frequency": 118, "examples": ["囚", "四", "國", "圍"], "order": "%E5%9B%97-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%9B%97-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9B%97-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9B%97-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9B%97-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 32, "radical": ["土"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "earth", "pinyin": "tǔ", "hanViet": "thổ", "frequency": 580, "examples": ["地", "圣", "圭", "堯"], "order": "%E5%9C%9F-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%9C%9F-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9C%9F-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9C%9F-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9C%9F-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9C%9F-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9C%9F-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%9C%9F-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a lump of clay on a potter’s wheel." }, { "no": 33, "radical": ["士"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "scholar", "pinyin": "shì", "hanViet": "sĩ", "frequency": 24, "examples": ["壬", "喜", "時", "壽"], "order": "%E5%A3%AB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%A3%AB-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A3%AB-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A3%AB-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A3%AB-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A3%AB-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – axe-like tool; soldier." }, { "no": 34, "radical": ["夂"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "go", "pinyin": "zhǐ", "hanViet": "truy/trĩ", "frequency": 11, "examples": ["各", "冬", "夆", "愛"], "order": "%E5%A4%82-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E5%A4%82-seal.svg.png"], "note": "" }, { "no": 35, "radical": ["夊"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "go slowly", "pinyin": "suī", "hanViet": "truy/tuy", "frequency": 23, "examples": ["夌", "复", "夏"], "order": "%E5%A4%8A-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%A4%8A-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%8A-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – footprint (pointing down), variant of 夂. Compare 止, which has similar form in oracle script, but has leg pointing up, and 𡕒 (as in right side of 舛, roughly ヰ), which also has leg pointing down, but toe pointing left, hence different evolutions." }, { "no": 36, "radical": ["夕"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "evening", "pinyin": "xī", "hanViet": "tịch", "frequency": 34, "examples": ["外", "夗", "多", "岁"], "order": "%E5%A4%95-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%A4%95-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%95-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%95-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%95-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%95-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) — moon crescent. Compare 月." }, { "no": 37, "radical": ["大"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "big", "pinyin": "dà", "hanViet": "đại", "frequency": 132, "examples": ["太", "天", "夭", "夯"], "order": "%E5%A4%A7-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%A4%A7-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%A7-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%A7-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%A7-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%A7-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%A7-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%A7-zhou.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%A7-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%A7-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事): a person 人 with arms stretched out as far as possible, implying the meaning of big/great/large. Compare with 尢, which is a man with bent legs. Compare also 文, which is a man with arms outstretched and a crest or tattoo on his chest, and to 夭, which is a man with arms outstretched and leaning to side (running)." }, { "no": 38, "radical": ["女"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "woman", "pinyin": "nǚ", "hanViet": "nữ", "frequency": 681, "examples": ["妳", "婆", "奶", "如"], "order": "%E5%A5%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%A5%B3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A5%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A5%B3-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A5%B3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A5%B3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a woman with breasts kneeling or standing. In modern form turned on left side: enclosed area is remnant of left breast (character's left, depicted woman's right), while right breast has disappeared. Graphically cognate to 母 (mǔ, “mother”), which has developed similarly, but also includes dots for nipples and has retained both breasts." }, { "no": 39, "radical": ["子"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "child", "pinyin": "zǐ", "hanViet": "tử", "frequency": 83, "examples": ["孩", "學", "孔", "仔"], "order": "%E5%AD%90-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%AD%90-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AD%90-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AD%90-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AD%90-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AD%90-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – an image of a baby, with a large head and spread arms. The legs are wrapped in a blanket. Compare with 了, where the arms are wrapped. The big seal script form is much more elaborate, showing a baby with hair on a head (囟) and arms on the two sides of the body, sitting on a stool (几)." }, { "no": 40, "radical": ["宀"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "roof", "pinyin": "mián", "hanViet": "miên", "frequency": 246, "examples": ["家", "安", "寧", "它"], "order": "%E5%AE%80-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%AE%80-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AE%80-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AE%80-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AE%80-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 41, "radical": ["寸"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "inch", "pinyin": "cùn", "hanViet": "thốn", "frequency": 40, "examples": ["村", "寺", "封", "射"], "order": "%E5%AF%B8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%AF%B8-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AF%B8-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AF%B8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%AF%B8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事) – a position on the forearm where the pulse can be palpated by compressing the radial artery. It is called 寸口 in modern Chinese, and the meaning of a unit of measurement is derived from the distance between the wrist and this position. Compare 又, 手, 九, 爪." }, { "no": 42, "radical": ["小", "⺌", "⺍"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "small", "pinyin": "xiǎo", "hanViet": "tiểu", "frequency": 41, "examples": ["少", "尖", "當", "栄"], "order": "%E5%B0%8F-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B0%8F-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%8F-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%8F-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%8F-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%8F-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Two possible interpretations: Starting from some bronze inscriptions, the dots have become elongated. Based on this form, Shuowen erroneously considers it to be an ideogrammic compound (會意): 八 (“to divide; to separate”) + 丨 (“small object”). Compare with 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews), represented by four dots in its oracle bone script form." }, { "no": 43, "radical": ["尢", "尣"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "lame", "pinyin": "wāng", "hanViet": "uông", "frequency": 66, "examples": ["尤", "尷", "尬", "尩"], "order": "%E5%B0%A2-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B0%A2-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%A2-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%A2-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%A2-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事), a man with bent legs (jumping or collapsing). Compare with 大, which derives from a man with straight legs, and in present form has slightly different strokes." }, { "no": 44, "radical": ["尸"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "corpse", "pinyin": "shī", "hanViet": "thi", "frequency": 148, "simplified": "(pr. 屍)", "examples": ["屍", "尺", "尼", "尻"], "order": "%E5%B0%B8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B0%B8-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%B8-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%B8-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%B8-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%B8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B0%B8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) - A man with his legs bending, and a side to the front. The picture is variously interpreted as either sitting or lying. When used as a radical, 尸 is usually derived from a variation of 人 or 亻, as in 尾." }, { "no": 45, "radical": ["屮"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "sprout", "pinyin": "chè", "hanViet": "triệt", "frequency": 38, "examples": ["艸", "屯", "屰", "頓"], "order": "%E5%B1%AE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B1%AE-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B1%AE-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B1%AE-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B1%AE-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 46, "radical": ["山"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "mountain", "pinyin": "shān", "hanViet": "sơn", "frequency": 636, "examples": ["嵗", "密", "峰", "幽"], "order": "%E5%B1%B1-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B1%B1-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B1%B1-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B1%B1-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B1%B1-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B1%B1-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – three mountain peaks. In the Oracle Bone Script, they were represented by triangles rather than vertical strokes. Compare 丘 (qiū), particularly earlier forms." }, { "no": 47, "radical": ["巛", "川"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "river", "pinyin": "chuān", "hanViet": "xuyên", "frequency": 26, "examples": ["川", "州", "順", "災"], "order": "%E5%B7%9B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B7%9D-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%9D-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%9D-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%9D-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%9D-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 48, "radical": ["工"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "work", "pinyin": "gōng", "hanViet": "công", "frequency": 17, "examples": ["左", "巧", "功", "式"], "order": "%E5%B7%A5-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B7%A5-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%A5-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%A5-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%A5-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%A5-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%A5-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a bladed tool." }, { "no": 49, "radical": ["己"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "oneself", "pinyin": "jǐ", "hanViet": "kỷ", "frequency": 20, "examples": ["記", "改", "忌", "龍"], "order": "%E5%B7%B1-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B7%B1-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%B1-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%B1-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%B1-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%B1-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – silk rope for binding objects. Original form of 紀 (OC *kɯʔ)." }, { "no": 50, "radical": ["巾"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "turban", "pinyin": "jīn", "hanViet": "cân", "frequency": 295, "examples": ["市", "帥", "刷", "砸"], "order": "%E5%B7%BE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B7%BE-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%BE-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%BE-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B7%BE-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 51, "radical": ["干"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "dry", "pinyin": "gān", "hanViet": "can", "frequency": 9, "simplified": "(pr. 乾、幹)", "examples": ["旱", "开", "平", "年"], "order": "%E5%B9%B2-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B9%B2-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B9%B2-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B9%B2-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B9%B2-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B9%B2-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a pestle. Also borrowed phonetically as a simplification of 乾 and 幹." }, { "no": 52, "radical": ["幺", "么"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "short thread", "pinyin": "yāo", "hanViet": "yêu", "frequency": 50, "examples": ["幻", "麼", "幽", "幾"], "order": "%E5%B9%BA-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B9%BA-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B9%BA-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 53, "radical": ["广"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "dotted cliff", "pinyin": "guǎng", "hanViet": "nghiễm", "frequency": 15, "simplified": "(pr. 廣)", "examples": ["庀", "庂", "庄"], "order": "%E5%B9%BF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%B9%BF-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B9%BF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%B9%BF-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): A house that is built to depend on a cliff." }, { "no": 54, "radical": ["廴"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "long stride", "pinyin": "yǐn", "hanViet": "dẫn", "frequency": 9, "examples": ["廵", "廷", "延"], "order": "%E5%BB%B4-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%BB%B4-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BB%B4-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a man with one leg behind him, implying a stride." }, { "no": 55, "radical": ["廾"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "arch", "pinyin": "gǒng", "hanViet": "củng", "frequency": 50, "examples": ["廿", "弁", "弄"], "order": "%E5%BB%BE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%BB%BE-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BB%BE-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BB%BE-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BB%BE-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 𠂇 (“left hand”) + 又 (“right hand”), hence both hands. Variant of 廿." }, { "no": 56, "radical": ["弋"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "shoot", "pinyin": "yì", "hanViet": "dặc", "frequency": 15, "examples": ["弌", "弍", "弎"], "order": "%E5%BC%8B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%BC%8B-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%8B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%8B-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%8B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%8B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 57, "radical": ["弓"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "bow", "pinyin": "gōng", "hanViet": "cung", "frequency": 165, "examples": ["弔", "引", "弗"], "order": "%E5%BC%93-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%BC%93-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%93-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%93-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%93-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BC%93-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) - pictographic representation of a bow." }, { "no": 58, "radical": ["彐", "彑"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "snout", "pinyin": "jì", "hanViet": "ký/kệ", "frequency": 25, "examples": ["彔", "彖", "彗"], "order": "%E5%BD%90-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E5%BD%90-seal.svg.png"], "note": "彐" }, { "no": 59, "radical": ["彡"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "bristle", "pinyin": "shān", "hanViet": "sam", "frequency": 62, "examples": ["形", "彤", "彥"], "order": "%E5%BD%A1-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%BD%A1-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BD%A1-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): 3 strands of hair." }, { "no": 60, "radical": ["彳"], "strokeCount": 3, "meaning": "step", "pinyin": "chì", "hanViet": "sách", "frequency": 215, "examples": ["㣔", "彴", "彷"], "order": "%E5%BD%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%BD%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BD%B3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BD%B3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Simplified from 行 – the left side of the character." }, { "no": 61, "radical": ["心", "忄", "⺗"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "heart", "pinyin": "xīn", "hanViet": "tâm", "frequency": 1115, "examples": ["必", "忉", "忌"], "order": "%E5%BF%83-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%BF%83-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BF%83-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BF%83-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BF%83-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BF%83-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E5%BF%83-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a heart, now highly stylized." }, { "no": 62, "radical": ["戈"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "halberd", "pinyin": "gē", "hanViet": "qua", "frequency": 116, "examples": ["戊", "戉", "戌"], "order": "%E6%88%88-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%88%88-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%88%88-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%88%88-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%88%88-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) ― a tool or weapon on a pole, the pole having developed into the long upper-left to lower-right diagonal stroke." }, { "no": 63, "radical": ["戶", "户", "戸"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "door", "pinyin": "hù", "hanViet": "hộ", "frequency": 44, "simplified": "户", "examples": ["戹", "戼", "戽"], "order": "%E6%88%B6-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%88%B6-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%88%B6-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%88%B6-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%88%B6-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%88%B6-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): half of 門 (“door”)." }, { "no": 64, "radical": ["手", "扌", "龵"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "hand", "pinyin": "shǒu", "hanViet": "thủ", "frequency": 1203, "examples": ["才", "扎", "扐"], "order": "%E6%89%8B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%89%8B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%89%8B-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%89%8B-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E6%89%8B-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E6%89%8B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%89%8B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – hand and fingers. The top stroke is the bent over middle finger, while the horizontal strokes are each two fingers. Compare 爪, 寸, 九. Note that unlike the other hand/claw characters, 手 has consistently had five fingers: a mammalian/human hand, as opposed to the three digits often found in the others. Compare also 止 (“foot”), derived from a footprint, originally composed of 3 toes and a sole." }, { "no": 65, "radical": ["支"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "branch", "pinyin": "zhī", "hanViet": "chi", "frequency": 26, "examples": ["攰", "攱", "攲"], "order": "%E6%94%AF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%94%AF-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%94%AF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%94%AF-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Shuowen: Half of 竹 + 又." }, { "no": 66, "radical": ["攴", "攵"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "rap, tap", "pinyin": "pū", "hanViet": "phộc", "frequency": 296, "examples": ["收", "攷", "攸"], "order": "%E6%94%B4-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%94%B4-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%94%B4-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%94%B4-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰoːɡ, *pʰroːɡ): phonetic 卜 (OC *poːɡ) + semantic 又 (“hand”)." }, { "no": 67, "radical": ["文"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "script", "pinyin": "wén", "hanViet": "văn", "frequency": 26, "examples": ["斉", "斌", "斐"], "order": "%E6%96%87-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%96%87-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%87-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%87-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%87-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%87-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事): a man with a painted or tattooed chest – original form of 紋. In current form, tattoo has vanished, so simply an outline of a man (head, outstretched arms, legs, chest). Compare 大, which has no chest." }, { "no": 68, "radical": ["斗"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "dipper", "pinyin": "dǒu", "hanViet": "đẩu", "frequency": 32, "examples": ["料", "斚", "斛"], "order": "%E6%96%97-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%96%97-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%97-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%97-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%97-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%97-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%97-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) (Shuowen), indicating a ladle-shaped dou (see below) held by hand." }, { "no": 69, "radical": ["斤"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "axe", "pinyin": "jīn", "hanViet": "cân", "frequency": 55, "examples": ["斥", "斧", "斨"], "order": "%E6%96%A4-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%96%A4-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%A4-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%A4-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%A4-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%A4-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) - an axe." }, { "no": 70, "radical": ["方"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "square", "pinyin": "fāng", "hanViet": "phương", "frequency": 92, "examples": ["㫃", "於", "㫄"], "order": "%E6%96%B9-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%96%B9-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%B9-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%B9-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%B9-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%96%B9-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 一 + 刀 (“sword”) – blade; tip of a blade. Original form of 芒 (OC *maːŋ, *maŋ, “awn (of cereal); tip (of blade)”); later borrowed to mean “side”. Other theories regarding the origin of this character also exist. It is unrelated to 㫃 (“fluttering flag”), from which characters like 旗 (OC *ɡɯ, “flag”) and 旅 (OC *ɡ·raʔ, “troops”) are derived." }, { "no": 71, "radical": ["无", "旡"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "not", "pinyin": "wú", "hanViet": "vô", "frequency": 12, "examples": ["既", "旣", "旤"], "order": "%E6%97%A0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%97%A0-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%84%A1-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%97%A0-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "One of the three characters (無, 无, 亡) that have historically been used to represent the word \"no, not any\". First attested in the Warring States period; used interchangeably with 無 until the Tang dynasty. Readopted by the PRC in 1956. The origin of this character is unknown. Probably an ancient variant form of either 元, 天 or 堯." }, { "no": 72, "radical": ["日"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "sun", "pinyin": "rì", "hanViet": "nhật", "frequency": 453, "examples": ["旦", "旨", "早"], "order": "%E6%97%A5-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%97%A5-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%97%A5-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%97%A5-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%97%A5-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%97%A5-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – the Sun. A dot or line was added in the centre to distinguish it from visually similar characters, e.g. 囗 (early form of 丁). Compare earlier forms of the character with the astronomical and astrological symbol for the Sun (☉) and the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓇳." }, { "no": 73, "radical": ["曰"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "say", "pinyin": "yuē", "hanViet": "viết", "frequency": 37, "examples": ["曲", "曳", "更"], "order": "%E6%9B%B0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%9B%B0-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9B%B0-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9B%B0-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9B%B0-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9B%B0-bigseal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9B%B0-clerical.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事): a mouth (口) with word or breath (一) coming out. Compare 今 and 言, where a small stroke is also used to represent words." }, { "no": 74, "radical": ["月"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "moon", "pinyin": "yuè", "hanViet": "nguyệt", "frequency": 69, "examples": ["有", "朋", "服"], "order": "%E6%9C%88-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%9C%88-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9C%88-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9C%88-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9C%88-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9C%88-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a crescent moon. Compare 夕." }, { "no": 75, "radical": ["木"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "tree", "pinyin": "mù", "hanViet": "mộc", "frequency": 1369, "examples": ["未", "末", "本"], "order": "%E6%9C%A8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%9C%A8-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9C%A8-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9C%A8-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9C%A8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9C%A8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a tree: branches on top, roots on the bottom (more visible in earlier forms)." }, { "no": 76, "radical": ["欠"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "lack", "pinyin": "qiàn", "hanViet": "khiếm", "frequency": 235, "examples": ["次", "欣", "欥"], "order": "%E6%AC%A0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%AC%A0-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AC%A0-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 77, "radical": ["止"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "stop", "pinyin": "zhǐ", "hanViet": "chỉ", "frequency": 99, "examples": ["正", "此", "步"], "order": "%E6%AD%A2-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%AD%A2-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AD%A2-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AD%A2-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AD%A2-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AD%A2-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AD%A2-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AD%A2-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a footprint, originally meaning \"foot\". The derivative 趾 (OC *kjɯʔ) refers to the original meaning. Compare 手 (“hand”). Note that in oracle script, composed of 3 toes and a sole. Compare to 夊, 夂, which have similar shape in oracle script, but pointing down (toe pointing right), and 𡕒 (as in right side of 舛, roughly ヰ, toe pointing left), hence different evolution." }, { "no": 78, "radical": ["歹", "歺"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "death", "pinyin": "dǎi", "hanViet": "ngạt/đãi", "frequency": 231, "examples": ["歺", "死", "歿"], "order": "%E6%AD%B9-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%AD%B9-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AD%B9-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AD%B9-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) - human remains." }, { "no": 79, "radical": ["殳"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "weapon", "pinyin": "shū", "hanViet": "thù", "frequency": 93, "examples": ["段", "殷", "殺"], "order": "%E6%AE%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%AE%B3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AE%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%9D%B8-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AE%B3-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AE%B3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AE%B3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) or Ideogrammic compound (會意): 几 + 又 – a hand holding a tool, hence activity." }, { "no": 80, "radical": ["毋", "母"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "do not", "pinyin": "wú", "hanViet": "vô", "frequency": 16, "examples": ["母", "每", "毐"], "order": "%E6%AF%8B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%AF%8B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%8B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%8B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "In the oracle bone script, 母 (“mother”) was borrowed to represent this character. It was later specialized to distinguish it from “mother”, replacing the two dots with one stroke." }, { "no": 81, "radical": ["比"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "compare", "pinyin": "bǐ", "hanViet": "tỷ", "frequency": 21, "examples": ["毖", "毗", "毘"], "order": "%E6%AF%94-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%AF%94-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%94-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%94-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E5%A4%B6-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%94-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%94-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 人 (“man”) + 人 – to juxtapose." }, { "no": 82, "radical": ["毛"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "fur", "pinyin": "máo", "hanViet": "mao", "frequency": 211, "examples": ["毡", "毣", "毧"], "order": "%E6%AF%9B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%AF%9B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%9B-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%9B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%AF%9B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – feather or hair." }, { "no": 83, "radical": ["氏"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "clan", "pinyin": "shì", "hanViet": "thị", "frequency": 10, "examples": ["氐", "民", "氓"], "order": "%E6%B0%8F-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%B0%8F-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%8F-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%8F-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%8F-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%8F-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – There are various interpretations: a man bending over to sow the field,[1] the root of a tree,[2] a man bowing over to the right, etc." }, { "no": 84, "radical": ["气"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "steam", "pinyin": "qì", "hanViet": "khí", "frequency": 17, "simplified": "(pr. 氣)", "examples": ["氕", "氘", "氚"], "order": "%E6%B0%94-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%B0%94-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%94-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%94-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%94-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%94-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%94-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%94-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "气 (OC *kʰɯds) is a pictogram (象形) of clouds flowing through the sky. In the oracle bone script, it was represented by three horizontal strokes, expressing the \"feeling\" of the sky. However, in order to avoid confusion with the number 三 (OC *suːm, *suːms), the current 气 (OC *kʰɯds) was changed to draw a small stroke from top to bottom. The glyph of 氣 (OC *kʰɯds, *qʰɯds) and 乞 (OC *kʰɯds, *kʰɯd) comes from the same ancient form." }, { "no": 85, "radical": ["水", "氵", "氺"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "water", "pinyin": "shuǐ", "hanViet": "thủy", "frequency": 1595, "examples": ["永", "氷", "氾"], "order": "%E6%B0%B4-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E6%B0%B4-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%B4-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%B4-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%B4-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%B4-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%B4-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E6%B0%B4-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – compare 川 (chuān)." }, { "no": 86, "radical": ["火", "灬"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "fire", "pinyin": "huǒ", "hanViet": "hỏa", "frequency": 639, "examples": ["灰", "灯", "灶"], "order": "%E7%81%AB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%81%AB-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%81%AB-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%81%AB-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%81%AB-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%81%AB-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E7%81%AB-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%81%AB-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a fire." }, { "no": 87, "radical": ["爪", "爫"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "claw", "pinyin": "zhǎo", "hanViet": "trảo", "frequency": 36, "examples": ["爬", "爭", "爰"], "order": "%E7%88%AA-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%88%AA-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%AA-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%AA-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%AA-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a hand grabbing from above (in earlier forms from side); compare 手, 寸, 九." }, { "no": 88, "radical": ["父"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "father", "pinyin": "fù", "hanViet": "phụ", "frequency": 10, "examples": ["爸", "爹", "爺"], "order": "%E7%88%B6-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%88%B6-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%B6-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%B6-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%B6-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%B6-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – A hand holding a stone, referring to a man working with a stone axe." }, { "no": 89, "radical": ["爻"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "Trigrams", "pinyin": "yáo", "hanViet": "hào", "frequency": 16, "examples": ["爼", "爽", "爾"], "order": "%E7%88%BB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%88%BB-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%BB-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%BB-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%BB-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): 乂 + 乂 – 2 stacked ‘X’ marks, indicating cuts or marks." }, { "no": 90, "radical": ["爿", "丬"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "split wood", "pinyin": "qiáng", "hanViet": "tường", "frequency": 48, "examples": ["牀", "牁", "牂"], "order": "%E7%88%BF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%88%BF-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E7%88%BF-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%80-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%80-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%80-slip.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) - a bed. The original form of 牀 (OC *zraŋ)." }, { "no": 91, "radical": ["片"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "slice", "pinyin": "piàn", "hanViet": "phiến", "frequency": 77, "examples": ["版", "牉", "牌"], "order": "%E7%89%87-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%89%87-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%87-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Mirror image of 爿 (OC *braːn, “piece”). Shuowen: Half of 木 (“wood; tree”) to denote “to pare; to slice”." }, { "no": 92, "radical": ["牙"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "fang", "pinyin": "yá", "hanViet": "nha", "frequency": 9, "examples": ["㸦", "㸧", "牚"], "order": "%E7%89%99-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%89%99-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%99-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%99-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 93, "radical": ["牛", "牜", "⺧"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "cow", "pinyin": "niú", "hanViet": "ngưu", "frequency": 233, "examples": ["牝", "牟", "牠"], "order": "%E7%89%9B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%89%9B-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%9B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%9B-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%9B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%89%9B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 94, "radical": ["犬", "犭"], "strokeCount": 4, "meaning": "dog", "pinyin": "quǎn", "hanViet": "khuyển", "frequency": 444, "examples": ["犮", "犯", "犰"], "order": "%E7%8A%AC-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%8A%AC-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8A%AC-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8A%AC-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8A%AC-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8A%AC-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8A%AC-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) The side view of a dog." }, { "no": 95, "radical": ["玄"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "profound", "pinyin": "xuán", "hanViet": "huyền", "frequency": 6, "examples": ["玅", "率", "玈"], "order": "%E7%8E%84-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%8E%84-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%84-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%84-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 96, "radical": ["玉", "王", "玊"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "jade", "pinyin": "yù", "hanViet": "ngọc", "frequency": 473, "examples": ["玻", "瑪", "璧"], "order": "%E7%8E%89-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%8E%89-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-bigseal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%8E%89-clerical.svg.png" ], "note": "The character's shape was historically very similar to 王; a dot was introduced to differentiate the two. Pictogram (象形): a picture of a cong (琮), a sort of ritual jade totem. It is also interpreted as three pieces of jade strung together on a string." }, { "no": 97, "radical": ["瓜"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "melon", "pinyin": "guā", "hanViet": "qua", "frequency": 55, "examples": ["瓝", "瓞", "瓟"], "order": "%E7%93%9C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%93%9C-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%93%9C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%93%9C-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) - a pictograph of a melon suspended by its vines." }, { "no": 98, "radical": ["瓦"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "tile", "pinyin": "wǎ", "hanViet": "ngõa", "frequency": 174, "examples": ["㼚", "瓮", "瓫"], "order": "%E7%93%A6-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%93%A6-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%93%A6-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%93%A6-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – fired earthenware pottery, or a tile." }, { "no": 99, "radical": ["甘"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "sweet", "pinyin": "gān", "hanViet": "cam", "frequency": 22, "examples": ["甚", "甜", "甛"], "order": "%E7%94%98-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%94%98-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%98-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%98-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%98-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 100, "radical": ["生"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "life", "pinyin": "shēng", "hanViet": "sinh", "frequency": 22, "examples": ["甡", "產", "甥"], "order": "%E7%94%9F-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%94%9F-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%9F-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%9F-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%9F-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 屮 (“bud”) + 一 (“ground”) – sprouting from the ground." }, { "no": 101, "radical": ["用"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "use", "pinyin": "yòng (shuǎi)", "hanViet": "dụng", "frequency": 10, "examples": ["甩", "甫", "甬"], "order": "%E7%94%A8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%94%A8-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%A8-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%A8-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%A8-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%A8-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%A8-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%A8-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%A8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%A8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a water bucket. Compare 桶." }, { "no": 102, "radical": ["田"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "field", "pinyin": "tián", "hanViet": "điền", "frequency": 192, "examples": ["由", "甲", "申"], "order": "%E7%94%B0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%94%B0-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%B0-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%B0-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%B0-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%B0-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%94%B0-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a field." }, { "no": 103, "radical": ["疋", "⺪"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "bolt of cloth", "pinyin": "pǐ", "hanViet": "thất/sơ", "frequency": 15, "examples": ["疌", "疏", "疎"], "order": "%E7%96%8B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%96%8B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%96%8B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a foot 止 with a leg/thigh on top." }, { "no": 104, "radical": ["疒"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "sickness", "pinyin": "nè", "hanViet": "nạch", "frequency": 526, "examples": ["疔", "疚", "疝"], "order": "%E7%96%92-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%96%92-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%96%92-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%96%92-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a bed or stretcher for the sick." }, { "no": 105, "radical": ["癶"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "footsteps", "pinyin": "bō", "hanViet": "bát", "frequency": 15, "examples": ["癸", "癹", "発"], "order": "%E7%99%B6-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E7%99%B6-seal.svg.png"], "note": "A right and a left foot (止）" }, { "no": 106, "radical": ["白"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "white", "pinyin": "bái", "hanViet": "bạch", "frequency": 109, "examples": ["百", "皀", "皁"], "order": "%E7%99%BD-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%99%BD-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%99%BD-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%99%BD-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%99%BD-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Unclear; probably a pictogram (象形). Guo (1954) suggests that it represents a thumb and is original form of 拇 (OC *mɯʔ) or, more probably, 擘 (OC *preːɡ). Alternatively, Unger (apud Schuessler, 2007) suggests that it represents an acorn, noting its use in 樂 (“oak”) (= 櫟) and 皂 (“acorn”)." }, { "no": 107, "radical": ["皮"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "skin", "pinyin": "pí", "hanViet": "bì", "frequency": 94, "examples": ["皯", "皰", "皴"], "order": "%E7%9A%AE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%9A%AE-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9A%AE-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9A%AE-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a hand (又) stripping the fur from an animal pelt (similar to 革). The pelt moved to the top left and became abstracted." }, { "no": 108, "radical": ["皿"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "dish", "pinyin": "mǐn", "hanViet": "mãnh", "frequency": 129, "examples": ["盂", "盃", "盅"], "order": "%E7%9A%BF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%9A%BF-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9A%BF-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9A%BF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9A%BF-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) A pictograph of an empty container, such as a chalice. The handles are conjoined in the modern form." }, { "no": 109, "radical": ["目", "⺫"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "eye", "pinyin": "mù", "hanViet": "mục", "frequency": 647, "examples": ["盯", "盱", "盲"], "order": "%E7%9B%AE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%9B%AE-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9B%AE-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9B%AE-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9B%AE-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9B%AE-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9B%AE-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – human eye, now rotated 90 degrees. Compare the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓁹." }, { "no": 110, "radical": ["矛"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "spear", "pinyin": "máo", "hanViet": "mâu", "frequency": 65, "examples": ["矜", "矞", "矟"], "order": "%E7%9F%9B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%9F%9B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%9B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%9B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 111, "radical": ["矢"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "arrow", "pinyin": "shǐ", "hanViet": "thỉ", "frequency": 64, "examples": ["矣", "知", "矧"], "order": "%E7%9F%A2-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%9F%A2-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%A2-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%A2-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%A2-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) - pictographic representation of an arrow. More recognizable in older forms." }, { "no": 112, "radical": ["石"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "stone", "pinyin": "shí", "hanViet": "thạch", "frequency": 499, "examples": ["矸", "矻", "矼"], "order": "%E7%9F%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%9F%B3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%B3-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%B3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%9F%B3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a stone beneath a cliff (厂). The cliff was subsequently distorted into 丆. Alternatively, a cave set into the side of a cliff or mountain." }, { "no": 113, "radical": ["示", "礻"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "spirit", "pinyin": "shì", "hanViet": "thị/kỳ", "frequency": 213, "examples": ["礼", "礽", "社"], "order": "%E7%A4%BA-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%A4%BA-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A4%BA-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A4%BA-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A4%BA-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A4%BA-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A4%BA-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – an altar. The original form is similar to unrelated character 丅, and additional strokes are added to prevent confusion." }, { "no": 114, "radical": ["禸"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "track", "pinyin": "róu", "hanViet": "nhựu", "frequency": 12, "examples": ["禹", "禺", "离"], "order": "%E7%A6%B8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E7%A6%B8-seal.svg.png"], "note": "" }, { "no": 115, "radical": ["禾"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "grain", "pinyin": "hé", "hanViet": "hòa", "frequency": 431, "examples": ["禿", "秀", "私"], "order": "%E7%A6%BE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%A6%BE-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A6%BE-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A6%BE-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A6%BE-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – picture of a plant stalk. The stalk is more recognizable in older form." }, { "no": 116, "radical": ["穴"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "cave", "pinyin": "xué", "hanViet": "huyệt", "frequency": 298, "examples": ["究", "穸", "空"], "order": "%E7%A9%B4-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%A9%B4-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%A9%B4-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)—possibly an entrance to a cave or a door flap." }, { "no": 117, "radical": ["立"], "strokeCount": 5, "meaning": "stand", "pinyin": "lì", "hanViet": "lập", "frequency": 101, "examples": ["竑", "竒", "竘"], "order": "%E7%AB%8B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%AB%8B-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%8B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%8B-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a person standing on the ground; compare 大." }, { "no": 118, "radical": ["竹", "⺮"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "bamboo", "pinyin": "zhú", "hanViet": "trúc", "frequency": 953, "examples": ["竺", "竽", "竿"], "order": "%E7%AB%B9-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%AB%B9-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%B9-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%B9-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%B9-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%B9-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%B9-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%B9-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%AB%B9-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – two bamboo stalks, with leaves. Earlier forms resembled 个 + 个, current form resembles rather ケ + ケ." }, { "no": 119, "radical": ["米"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "rice", "pinyin": "mǐ", "hanViet": "mễ", "frequency": 318, "examples": ["籸", "籹", "籽"], "order": "%E7%B1%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%B1%B3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B1%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B1%B3-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B1%B3-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B1%B3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B1%B3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – rice kernels." }, { "no": 120, "radical": ["糸", "糹"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "silk", "pinyin": "mì", "hanViet": "mịch/ty", "frequency": 823, "simplified": "纟", "examples": ["系", "糾", "紀"], "order": "%E7%B3%B8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%B3%B8-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B3%B8-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B3%B8-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B3%B8-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E7%B3%B8-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a skein of silk." }, { "no": 121, "radical": ["缶"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "jar", "pinyin": "fǒu", "hanViet": "phẫu", "frequency": 77, "examples": ["缸", "缺", "缽"], "order": "%E7%BC%B6-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%BC%B6-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BC%B6-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BC%B6-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BC%B6-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a pot with a lid." }, { "no": 122, "radical": ["网", "⺲", "罓", "⺳"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "net", "pinyin": "wǎng", "hanViet": "võng", "frequency": 163, "examples": ["罔", "罕", "罘"], "order": "%E7%BD%91-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%86%88-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BD%91-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E5%86%88-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E5%86%88-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E5%86%88-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BD%94-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BD%94-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BD%91-zhou.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BD%94-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BD%91-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a net." }, { "no": 123, "radical": ["羊", "⺶", "⺷"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "sheep", "pinyin": "yáng", "hanViet": "dương", "frequency": 156, "examples": ["羋", "羌", "美"], "order": "%E7%BE%8A-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%BE%8A-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BE%8A-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BE%8A-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BE%8A-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – picture of a ram's head." }, { "no": 124, "radical": ["羽"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "feather", "pinyin": "yǔ", "hanViet": "vũ", "frequency": 220, "examples": ["羿", "翀", "翁"], "order": "%E7%BE%BD-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E7%BE%BD-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BE%BD-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BE%BD-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E7%BE%BD-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): wings or feathers." }, { "no": 125, "radical": ["老", "耂"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "old", "pinyin": "lǎo", "hanViet": "lão", "frequency": 22, "examples": ["考", "者", "耆"], "order": "%E8%80%81-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%80%81-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%81-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%81-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%81-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%81-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 人 (“man”) + 毛 (“hair”) + 匕 (“cane”) – a man with long hair (an old man), leaning on a cane. Compare top component to 孝 (OC *qʰruːs). Cognate to 考 (OC *kʰluːʔ); the most commonly cited example of 轉注 (“reciprocal meaning”)." }, { "no": 126, "radical": ["而"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "and", "pinyin": "ér", "hanViet": "nhi", "frequency": 22, "examples": ["耍", "耎", "耏"], "order": "%E8%80%8C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%80%8C-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%8C-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%8C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%8C-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a beard. Original form of 耏 (OC *nɯːs, *njɯ) or 髵 (OC *njɯ)." }, { "no": 127, "radical": ["耒"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "plow", "pinyin": "lěi", "hanViet": "lỗi", "frequency": 84, "examples": ["耔", "耕", "耖"], "order": "%E8%80%92-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%80%92-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%92-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a wooden (木) plow with originally three cross lines (彡) for the furrows of the plow, later simplified to two. 耒" }, { "no": 128, "radical": ["耳"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "ear", "pinyin": "ěr", "hanViet": "nhĩ", "frequency": 172, "examples": ["耴", "耵", "耷"], "order": "%E8%80%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%80%B3-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%B3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%B3-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%B3-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%B3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%80%B3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – an ear." }, { "no": 129, "radical": ["聿", "⺺", "⺻"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "brush", "pinyin": "yù", "hanViet": "duật", "frequency": 19, "examples": ["肄", "肆", "肅"], "order": "%E8%81%BF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%81%BF-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%81%BF-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%81%BF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%81%BF-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *b·lud): semantic 𦘒 + phonetic 一 (OC *qliɡ)." }, { "no": 130, "radical": ["肉", "⺼"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "meat", "pinyin": "ròu", "hanViet": "nhục", "frequency": 674, "simplified": "月", "examples": ["肊", "肋", "然"], "order": "%E8%82%89-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%82%89-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%82%89-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%82%89-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%82%89-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%82%89-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%82%89-bigseal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%82%89-clerical.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – ribs of an animal’s torso or simply a physical representation of a slice of meat. For more images, please refer to this link: http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=肉" }, { "no": 131, "radical": ["臣"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "minister", "pinyin": "chén", "hanViet": "thần", "frequency": 16, "examples": ["臤", "臥", "臧"], "order": "%E8%87%A3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%87%A3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%A3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%A3-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%A3-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – A vertical eye of a man looking downwards. As the individual character it is used as a metaphor meaning “to surrender”, while the meaning relating to eyes appears when used as a radical, such as in 臨 (“to look down at”)." }, { "no": 132, "radical": ["自"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "self", "pinyin": "zì", "hanViet": "tự", "frequency": 34, "examples": ["臬", "臭", "臯"], "order": "%E8%87%AA-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%87%AA-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%AA-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%AA-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%AA-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%AA-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%AA-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Originally a pictogram (象形) of a nose; in China (and East Asia) one points at one’s nose to indicate oneself, hence an ideogram (指事) of “self”. The original meaning of “nose” has been replaced by 鼻." }, { "no": 133, "radical": ["至"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "arrive", "pinyin": "zhì", "hanViet": "chí", "frequency": 24, "examples": ["致", "臷", "臺"], "order": "%E8%87%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%87%B3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%B3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%87%B3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 134, "radical": ["臼"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "mortar", "pinyin": "jiù", "hanViet": "cữu", "frequency": 71, "examples": ["臾", "臿", "舁"], "order": "%E8%87%BC-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E8%87%BC-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a mortar" }, { "no": 135, "radical": ["舌"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "tongue", "pinyin": "shé", "hanViet": "thiệt", "frequency": 31, "examples": ["舍", "舐", "舑"], "order": "%E8%88%8C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%88%8C-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%88%8C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%88%8C-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a forked tongue emerging upwards from a mouth (口)." }, { "no": 136, "radical": ["舛"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "oppose", "pinyin": "chuǎn", "hanViet": "suyễn", "frequency": 10, "examples": ["舜", "舝", "舞"], "order": "%E8%88%9B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%88%9B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%88%9B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 夊 + 𡕒 (second character roughly ヰ) – two feet facing each other (toe-to-toe). Compare 夅, with feet pointing down. Compare also foot in 夂, 夊, 𡕒. Note that the left foot has changed shape rather more than the right foot, which still resembles the form in earlier script." }, { "no": 137, "radical": ["舟"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "boat", "pinyin": "zhōu", "hanViet": "chu", "frequency": 197, "examples": ["舠", "舡", "舢"], "order": "%E8%88%9F-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%88%9F-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%88%9F-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%88%9F-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%88%9F-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a boat." }, { "no": 138, "radical": ["艮"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "stopping", "pinyin": "gèn", "hanViet": "cấn", "frequency": 5, "examples": ["良", "艱"], "order": "%E8%89%AE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%89%AE-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%F0%A5%83%A9-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%89%AE-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%89%AE-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯːns): 目 (“eye”) + 匕." }, { "no": 139, "radical": ["色"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "color", "pinyin": "sè", "hanViet": "sắc", "frequency": 21, "examples": ["艳", "艴", "艵"], "order": "%E8%89%B2-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%89%B2-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E8%89%B2-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%89%B2-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%89%B2-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E8%89%B2-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%89%B2-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 爪 (“claw; hand”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”) – complexion. Shuowen interprets this character as an ideogrammic compound (會意): 人 (“person; human”) + 卩 (“etiquette”) – complexion. Compare 印, 抑." }, { "no": 140, "radical": ["艸", "⺿"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "grass", "pinyin": "cǎo", "hanViet": "thảo", "frequency": 1902, "simplified": "⺾", "examples": ["艽", "艾", "芃"], "order": "%E8%89%B8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E8%89%B8-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – grass." }, { "no": 141, "radical": ["虍"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "tiger", "pinyin": "hū", "hanViet": "hô", "frequency": 114, "examples": ["虎", "虐", "虒"], "order": "%E8%99%8D-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%99%8D-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%99%8D-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%99%8D-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%99%8D-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – tiger's head." }, { "no": 142, "radical": ["虫"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "insect", "pinyin": "chóng", "hanViet": "trùng", "frequency": 1067, "simplified": "(pr. 蟲)", "examples": ["虬", "虯", "虱"], "order": "%E8%99%AB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%99%AB-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%99%AB-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%99%AB-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a snake. The character originally represented a type of venomous snake, while the derivative 蟲 represented worms and insects (or insect-like things). 虫 was later borrowed for 蟲 (possibly via simplification), and the character 虺 was created to represent the original meaning." }, { "no": 143, "radical": ["血"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "blood", "pinyin": "xuè", "hanViet": "huyết", "frequency": 60, "examples": ["衁", "衂", "衃"], "order": "%E8%A1%80-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%A1%80-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%80-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%80-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%80-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%80-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 一 (“drop of blood”) + 皿 (“container”) - a drop of blood inside a chalice for sacrificial uses." }, { "no": 144, "radical": ["行"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "walk enclosure", "pinyin": "xíng", "hanViet": "hành", "frequency": 53, "examples": ["衍", "衎", "衒"], "order": "%E8%A1%8C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%A1%8C-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%8C-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%8C-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%8C-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%8C-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%8C-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%8C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%8C-bigseal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%8C-clerical.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a street intersection. Originally symmetric, it has been simplified asymmetrically; the left half 彳 is widely used as a radical, while the right half 亍 finds occasional use, and the character can be broken up as 彳 + 亍, though originally it was not a compound." }, { "no": 145, "radical": ["衣", "⻂"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "clothes", "pinyin": "yī", "hanViet": "y", "frequency": 607, "examples": ["初", "表", "衫"], "order": "%E8%A1%A3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%A1%A3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%A3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%A3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A1%A3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) Outline of the chest, upper clothing. compare to 文 with limbs and a head." }, { "no": 146, "radical": ["襾", "西", "覀"], "strokeCount": 6, "meaning": "cover", "pinyin": "yà", "hanViet": "che", "frequency": 29, "examples": ["西", "要", "覂"], "order": "%E8%A5%BE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%A5%BE-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A5%BE-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 147, "radical": ["見"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "see", "pinyin": "jiàn", "hanViet": "kiến", "frequency": 161, "simplified": "见", "examples": ["規", "覓", "視"], "order": "%E8%A6%8B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%A6%8B-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A6%8B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A6%8B-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A6%8B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A6%8B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "目 (“eye”) + 儿 (“human”) – an eye on a pair of legs. Originally a human figure with a large eye for a head." }, { "no": 148, "radical": ["角", "⻇"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "horn", "pinyin": "jiǎo", "hanViet": "giác", "frequency": 158, "simplified": "⻆", "examples": ["觓", "觔", "觕"], "order": "%E8%A7%92-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%A7%92-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A7%92-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A7%92-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A7%92-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a horn." }, { "no": 149, "radical": ["言", "訁"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "speech", "pinyin": "yán", "hanViet": "ngôn", "frequency": 861, "simplified": "讠", "examples": ["訂", "訃", "計"], "order": "%E8%A8%80-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%A8%80-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A8%80-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A8%80-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%A8%80-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事): 言 was created by adding a mark to 舌 to indicate movement of the tongue.[1] This indicates speech where 舌 is a mouth (口) with a tongue sticking out. Shuowen erroneously analyzes the glyph as a phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 䇂 + semantic 口 (“mouth”)." }, { "no": 150, "radical": ["谷"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "valley", "pinyin": "gǔ", "hanViet": "cốc", "frequency": 54, "examples": ["谹", "谽", "谿"], "order": "%E8%B0%B7-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%B0%B7-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B0%B7-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B0%B7-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B0%B7-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) — valley (口) in between two mountains." }, { "no": 151, "radical": ["豆"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "bean", "pinyin": "dòu", "hanViet": "đậu", "frequency": 68, "examples": ["豇", "豈", "豉"], "order": "%E8%B1%86-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%B1%86-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%86-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%86-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%86-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – some kind of container. Borrowed phonetically for the plant name. Displaced Old Chinese 菽 (shū)." }, { "no": 152, "radical": ["豕"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "pig", "pinyin": "shǐ", "hanViet": "thỉ", "frequency": 148, "examples": ["豗", "豚", "豜"], "order": "%E8%B1%95-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%B1%95-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%95-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%95-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%95-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a pig. Compare 亥." }, { "no": 153, "radical": ["豸"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "badger", "pinyin": "zhì", "hanViet": "trãi", "frequency": 140, "examples": ["豺", "豻", "豹"], "order": "%E8%B1%B8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%B1%B8-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%B8-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%B8-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%B8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B1%B8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 154, "radical": ["貝"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "shell", "pinyin": "bèi", "hanViet": "bối", "frequency": 277, "simplified": "贝", "examples": ["貞", "負", "財"], "order": "%E8%B2%9D-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%B2%9D-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B2%9D-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B2%9D-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B2%9D-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B2%9D-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – cowry." }, { "no": 155, "radical": ["赤"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "red", "pinyin": "chì", "hanViet": "xích", "frequency": 31, "examples": ["赦", "赧", "赨"], "order": "%E8%B5%A4-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%B5%A4-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%A4-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%A4-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%A4-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%A4-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%A4-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%A4-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%A4-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 大 (“person, big”) + 火 (“fire”) – the color of fire (a person by a fire)." }, { "no": 156, "radical": ["走"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "run", "pinyin": "zǒu", "hanViet": "tẩu", "frequency": 285, "examples": ["赳", "赴", "赶"], "order": "%E8%B5%B0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%B5%B0-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%B0-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%B0-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%B0-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%B0-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%B0-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%B0-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%B5%B0-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 夭 (“young, running man”) + 止 (“foot”) – a running man. The top component (夭) simplified to the unrelated 土. As with 圭, there are two separate vertical strokes, not a single one." }, { "no": 157, "radical": ["足", "⻊"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "foot", "pinyin": "zú", "hanViet": "túc", "frequency": 580, "examples": ["趴", "趵", "趷"], "order": "%E8%B6%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E8%B6%B3-seal.svg.png"], "note": "" }, { "no": 158, "radical": ["身"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "body", "pinyin": "shēn", "hanViet": "thân", "frequency": 97, "examples": ["躬", "躭", "躰"], "order": "%E8%BA%AB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%BA%AB-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BA%AB-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BA%AB-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): from a pictograph of a pregnant woman." }, { "no": 159, "radical": ["車"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "cart", "pinyin": "chē", "hanViet": "xa", "frequency": 361, "simplified": "车", "examples": ["軋", "軌", "軍"], "order": "%E8%BB%8A-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%BB%8A-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-zhou.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BB%8A-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事): It is derived from a pictogram of a carriage seen from above. In the oracle bone script, there were large wheels on both sides and a sun shade on the top. Later, when Chinese characters were written vertically, the wheels on both sides were simply drawn in strokes and the loading area was marked with a 田 (OC *l'iːŋ). Therefore, it is important to understand that the current character, 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla) is a vertical depiction of a carriage. Note that 倝 (OC *kaːns) (as in left part of 朝 (OC *ʔr'ew, *r'ew)) is not derived from 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla)." }, { "no": 160, "radical": ["辛"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "bitter", "pinyin": "xīn", "hanViet": "tân", "frequency": 36, "examples": ["辜", "辝", "辟"], "order": "%E8%BE%9B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E8%BE%9B-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – Picture of a tool - a carving knife or a chisel - used to mark slaves and criminals." }, { "no": 161, "radical": ["辰"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "morning", "pinyin": "chén", "hanViet": "thần/thìn", "frequency": 15, "examples": ["辱", "農", "辴"], "order": "%E8%BE%B0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E8%BE%B0-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BE%B0-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BE%B0-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E8%BE%B0-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a kind of agricultural tool used for tilling the fields and removing weeds (Guo, 1931; Qiu, 1992), possibly made of a kind of large clam 蜃 (OC *djɯns, *djɯnʔ, *djins) (Guo, 1931). Alternatively, it could be a pictogram (象形) of a person holding onto a cliff – original character of 振 (OC *tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to hold up”) (Shang, 1983)." }, { "no": 162, "radical": ["辵", "⻌", "⻍", "⻎"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "walk", "pinyin": "chuò", "hanViet": "sước", "frequency": 381, "examples": ["边", "巡", "迂"], "order": "%E8%BE%B5-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E8%BE%B5-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 彳 (“walk”) + 止 (“\"foot\" or \"to stop\"”)." }, { "no": 163, "radical": ["邑", "⻏"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "city", "pinyin": "yì", "hanViet": "ấp", "frequency": 350, "examples": ["邕", "邗", "邘"], "order": "%E9%82%91-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%82%91-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%82%91-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%82%91-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%82%91-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 囗 + 卪." }, { "no": 164, "radical": ["酉"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "wine", "pinyin": "yǒu", "hanViet": "dậu", "frequency": 290, "examples": ["酊", "酋", "酌"], "order": "%E9%85%89-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%85%89-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%85%89-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) — an ancient vase used in making and storing fermented millet alcoholic drink. See 酒." }, { "no": 165, "radical": ["釆"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "distinguish", "pinyin": "biàn", "hanViet": "biện", "frequency": 14, "examples": ["采", "釉", "釋"], "order": "%E9%87%86-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%87%86-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%87%86-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%87%86-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%87%86-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 166, "radical": ["里"], "strokeCount": 7, "meaning": "village", "pinyin": "lǐ", "hanViet": "lý", "frequency": 14, "examples": ["重", "野", "量"], "order": "%E9%87%8C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%87%8C-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 田 (“field”) + 土 (“soil; earth”) – a measure of land and fields; mile; place." }, { "no": 167, "radical": ["金", "釒"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "gold", "pinyin": "jīn", "hanViet": "kim", "frequency": 806, "simplified": "钅", "examples": ["釓", "釔", "釕"], "order": "%E9%87%91-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%87%91-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%87%91-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%87%91-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Originally referred to copper. Later, the meaning was extended to metal as a whole, and then to gold. Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *krɯm): semantic 王 (“upside-down axe”) + semantic 呂 (“two blocks of metal”) + phonetic 亼. 亼 is the ancient form for 今 (OC *krɯm)." }, { "no": 168, "radical": ["長", "镸"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "long", "pinyin": "cháng", "hanViet": "trường", "frequency": 55, "simplified": "长", "examples": ["镺", "镻", "镼"], "order": "%E9%95%B7-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%95%B7-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – originally long hair; compare 彡." }, { "no": 169, "radical": ["門"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "gate", "pinyin": "mén", "hanViet": "môn", "frequency": 246, "simplified": "门", "examples": ["閂", "閃", "閆"], "order": "%E9%96%80-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%96%80-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E9%96%80-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%96%80-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%96%80-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%96%80-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%96%80-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%96%80-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a gate. Compare 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “(one) door”), which is half of this character." }, { "no": 170, "radical": ["阜", "⻖"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "mound", "pinyin": "fù", "hanViet": "phụ", "frequency": 348, "examples": ["阞", "阡", "阢"], "order": "%E9%98%9C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%98%9C-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%98%9C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%98%9C-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 171, "radical": ["隶"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "slave", "pinyin": "lì", "hanViet": "lệ", "frequency": 12, "examples": ["𨽻", "隷", "隸"], "order": "%E9%9A%B6-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%9A%B6-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Pictogram (象形): 又 + abbreviated 尾." }, { "no": 172, "radical": ["隹"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "short-tailed bird", "pinyin": "zhuī", "hanViet": "chuy", "frequency": 233, "examples": ["隻", "隼", "隽"], "order": "%E9%9A%B9-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%9A%B9-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9A%B9-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9A%B9-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9A%B9-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a short‐tailed bird (e.g. a sparrow). Compare 鳥." }, { "no": 173, "radical": ["雨"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "rain", "pinyin": "yǔ", "hanViet": "vũ", "frequency": 298, "examples": ["雩", "雪", "雯"], "order": "%E9%9B%A8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%9B%A8-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9B%A8-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9B%A8-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9B%A8-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9B%A8-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9B%A8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9B%A8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a cloud with drops of rain falling from it." }, { "no": 174, "radical": ["靑", "青"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "blue", "pinyin": "qīng", "hanViet": "thanh", "frequency": 17, "examples": ["靖", "静", "靚"], "order": "%E9%9D%91-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [], "note": "" }, { "no": 175, "radical": ["非"], "strokeCount": 8, "meaning": "wrong", "pinyin": "fēi", "hanViet": "phi", "frequency": 25, "examples": ["靟", "靠", "靡"], "order": "%E9%9D%9E-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%9D%9E-seal.svg.png"], "note": "" }, { "no": 176, "radical": ["面", "靣"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "face", "pinyin": "miàn", "hanViet": "diện", "frequency": 66, "examples": ["靤", "靦", "靧"], "order": "%E9%9D%A2-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%9D%A2-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9D%A2-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形), A mans face, with an eye exaggerated, derived from 𦣻." }, { "no": 177, "radical": ["革"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "leather", "pinyin": "gé", "hanViet": "cách", "frequency": 305, "examples": ["靭", "靮", "靳"], "order": "%E9%9D%A9-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%9D%A9-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a stretched animal hide: the upper is head, the bottom is the tail and legs. Compare 皮, which also features a hide." }, { "no": 178, "radical": ["韋"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "tanned leather", "pinyin": "wéi", "hanViet": "vi", "frequency": 100, "simplified": "韦", "examples": ["韌", "韍", "韎"], "order": "%E9%9F%8B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%9F%8B-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%8B-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%8B-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%8B-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%8B-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%8B-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%8B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%8B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷɯl): 舛 + 囗 – footsteps around an enclosure. Possibly the original character for 衛 'guard; protect'." }, { "no": 179, "radical": ["韭"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "leek", "pinyin": "jiǔ", "hanViet": "cửu", "frequency": 20, "examples": ["韰", "韲", "䪢"], "order": "%E9%9F%AD-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%9F%AD-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – leek in the ground (一)." }, { "no": 180, "radical": ["音"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "sound", "pinyin": "yīn", "hanViet": "âm", "frequency": 43, "examples": ["竟", "章", "韵"], "order": "%E9%9F%B3-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%9F%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%B3-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%B3-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%9F%B3-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogram (指事): 言 (“word”) with something in 口 (“mouth”) – sound comes from the mouth." }, { "no": 181, "radical": ["頁"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "leaf", "pinyin": "yè", "hanViet": "hiệt", "frequency": 372, "simplified": "页", "examples": ["頂", "頃", "頄"], "order": "%E9%A0%81-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%A0%81-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A0%81-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A0%81-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A0%81-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A0%81-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): 首 + 卩 – head of a kneeling person, emphasising “head”. 頁 and 首 (OC *hljuʔ, *hljus) were originally the same pictographic character with the same meaning of “head”, and the graphical difference was that 頁 also included the body in addition to the head of the person. 頁 was later used as an alternative popular form of 葉 (“leaf; page”) to mean “sheet; page (of paper)”, which is its main meaning today. The original sense of “head” is preserved in the radical 頁, which is used in characters such as 頭 (“head”) and 頸 (“neck”)." }, { "no": 182, "radical": ["風"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "wind", "pinyin": "fēng", "hanViet": "phong", "frequency": 182, "simplified": "风", "examples": ["颩", "颭", "颮"], "order": "%E9%A2%A8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%B3%B3-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B3%B3-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A2%A8-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A2%A8-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A2%A8-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A2%A8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A2%A8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *plum, *plums): phonetic 凡 (OC *bom) + semantic 虫 (“insects”). Ancient Chinese thought insects appear with wind. (Insects refer to any kind of animal, such as tigers (大蟲)). In the oracle bone script, the character 鳳 (OC *bums, “male fenghuang”) was phonetically borrowed to represent 風 (OC *plum, *plums). The right part of the bronze inscription of the character consists of phonetic 凡 (OC *bom) at the top, and three parts depicting the fur on the tail of the male fenghuang at the bottom. Subsequent forms of 風 are based on the right part of its bronze inscription, with two of the three threads of \"fur\" removed for simplification. The 虫 in the Chu script and Qin script of 風 was likely a result of further simplification of the \"fur\". Shuowen misinterpreted the character 風 by associating it with insects. (Li, 2012)" }, { "no": 183, "radical": ["飛"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "fly", "pinyin": "fēi", "hanViet": "phi", "frequency": 92, "simplified": "飞", "examples": ["䬡", "飜", "飝"], "order": "%E9%A3%9B-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%A3%9B-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9B-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9B-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9B-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): looks like a bird flying upwards. In modern form, resembles a tasseled 升 (shēng)." }, { "no": 184, "radical": ["食", "飠"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "eat", "pinyin": "shí", "hanViet": "thực", "frequency": 403, "simplified": "饣", "examples": ["飡", "飢", "飣"], "order": "%E9%A3%9F-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%A3%9F-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9F-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9F-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9F-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9F-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9F-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9F-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A3%9F-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a mouth over a bowl of rice on a stand. While the current form is 人+良, the lower part (bowl of rice on a stand) is cognate to 皀, not to 良 or 艮. This is more visible in the form 𠊊. Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lɯɡs, *ɦljɯɡ): phonetic 亼 (OC *zub) + semantic 皀; see 𠊊." }, { "no": 185, "radical": ["首"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "head", "pinyin": "shǒu", "hanViet": "thủ", "frequency": 20, "examples": ["馗", "䭫", "馘"], "order": "%E9%A6%96-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%A6%96-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%96-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%96-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%96-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Simplified from 𩠐 (巛 → 丷). Originally pictographic (象形) of an animal with a long mouth and horns. In the oracle bone script, it appeared with or without hair (巛), but 𩠐, the form with hair, was the form that was perpetuated." }, { "no": 186, "radical": ["香"], "strokeCount": 9, "meaning": "fragrant", "pinyin": "xiāng", "hanViet": "hương", "frequency": 37, "examples": ["馝", "馞", "馡"], "order": "%E9%A6%99-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%A6%99-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%99-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%99-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%99-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "In the oracle bone script, it was ideogrammic compound (會意): 黍 (“glutinous millet”) + 口 (“mouth”). In the seal script, the 口 was replaced with the related 甘 (“sweet”). Currently, the 黍 has simplified into 禾, and the form of the bottom component 甘 has become akin to the unrelated 曰 or 日." }, { "no": 187, "radical": ["馬"], "strokeCount": 10, "meaning": "horse", "pinyin": "mǎ", "hanViet": "mã", "frequency": 472, "simplified": "马", "examples": ["馭", "馮", "馯"], "order": "%E9%A6%AC-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%A6%AC-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-zhou.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-ancient.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-bigseal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%A6%AC-clerical.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a horse with its head facing the left, showing a flowing mane in the wind. In the bronze inscriptions, the head was often simplified into an eye (目). The legs eventually evolved into four dots (灬, unrelated to 火). Contrast with 鹿 (“deer”), which saw a very different development, and 𢊁 (as in 薦), which is a hybrid: it has the legs of 馬 (灬) but the head of 鹿." }, { "no": 188, "radical": ["骨"], "strokeCount": 10, "meaning": "bone", "pinyin": "gǔ", "hanViet": "cốt", "frequency": 185, "simplified": "⻣", "examples": ["骫", "骭", "骯"], "order": "%E9%AA%A8-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E5%86%8E-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E5%86%8E-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AA%A8-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AA%A8-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AA%A8-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AA%A8-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 冎 (“skull”) + ⺼ (“body”)." }, { "no": 189, "radical": ["高", "髙"], "strokeCount": 10, "meaning": "tall", "pinyin": "gāo", "hanViet": "cao", "frequency": 34, "examples": ["髚", "髛", "𩫛"], "order": "%E9%AB%98-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%AB%98-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%98-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%98-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%98-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%98-bronze-warring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%98-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%98-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%98-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%98-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a picture of a building. compare to 京." }, { "no": 190, "radical": ["髟"], "strokeCount": 10, "meaning": "hair", "pinyin": "biāo", "hanViet": "bưu/tiêu", "frequency": 243, "examples": ["髠", "髡", "髢"], "order": "%E9%AB%9F-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%AB%9F-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%9F-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AB%9F-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 镸 (“long”) + 彡 (“hair”)." }, { "no": 191, "radical": ["鬥"], "strokeCount": 10, "meaning": "fight", "pinyin": "dòu", "hanViet": "đấu", "frequency": 23, "simplified": "门", "examples": ["鬦", "鬧", "鬨"], "order": "%E2%BE%BE-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%AC%A5-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%A5-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%A5-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) — two figures face-to-face, fighting with bare hands. Some oracle script characters of 鬥 show that both of their hair are bristled. The character shape resembles 𠨭 and 丮 opposite each other. 鬥 and 鬭 are original characters of this form; forms with the similar-looking radical 門 (\"door\") were non-standard variants. Simplified form 斗 was derived via the variant form 鬦." }, { "no": 192, "radical": ["鬯"], "strokeCount": 10, "meaning": "sacrificial wine", "pinyin": "chàng", "hanViet": "sưởng", "frequency": 8, "examples": ["鬰", "鬱"], "order": "%E9%AC%AF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%AC%AF-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%AF-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%AF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%AF-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 193, "radical": ["鬲"], "strokeCount": 10, "meaning": "cauldron", "pinyin": "lì", "hanViet": "cách", "frequency": 73, "examples": ["鬳", "鬴", "鬵"], "order": "%E9%AC%B2-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%AC%B2-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%B2-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%B2-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%B2-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 194, "radical": ["鬼"], "strokeCount": 10, "meaning": "ghost", "pinyin": "guǐ", "hanViet": "quỷ", "frequency": 141, "examples": ["鬾", "魁", "魂"], "order": "%E9%AC%BC-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%AC%BC-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%BC-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%BC-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AC%BC-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a man or figure with an ugly face and tail. Compare 異 (“different, strange”), where the 田 also derives from a face. It may not be clear from the character, but the lower right “dot” is a small 厶; it is a residual tail – compare 离." }, { "no": 195, "radical": ["魚"], "strokeCount": 11, "meaning": "fish", "pinyin": "yú", "hanViet": "ngư", "frequency": 571, "simplified": "鱼", "examples": ["魟", "魠", "魦"], "order": "%E9%AD%9A-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%AD%9A-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AD%9A-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AD%9A-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%AD%9A-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a fish." }, { "no": 196, "radical": ["鳥"], "strokeCount": 11, "meaning": "bird", "pinyin": "niǎo", "hanViet": "điểu", "frequency": 750, "simplified": "鸟", "examples": ["鳦", "鳧", "鳩"], "order": "%E9%B3%A5-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%B3%A5-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B3%A5-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B3%A5-seal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): a bird with a dangling tail. Compare 烏, which is very similar, of similar origin, and 隹, which originated from a similar image of a bird, but is today rather more abstract and less recognizable." }, { "no": 197, "radical": ["鹵"], "strokeCount": 11, "meaning": "salt", "pinyin": "lǔ", "hanViet": "lỗ", "frequency": 44, "simplified": "卤", "examples": ["鹹", "鹺", "鹼"], "order": "%E9%B9%B5-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%B9%B5-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B9%B5-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B9%B5-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B9%B5-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a bag of salt. Compare 西." }, { "no": 198, "radical": ["鹿"], "strokeCount": 11, "meaning": "deer", "pinyin": "lù", "hanViet": "lộc", "frequency": 104, "examples": ["麀", "麁", "麂"], "order": "%E9%B9%BF-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%B9%BF-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B9%BF-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B9%BF-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%B9%BF-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a deer. Current form is highly abstracted – legs have transformed to 比 – note grouping of front and rear legs, which are bent – head has transformed to middle component (similar to 凸/曲), while antlers on top and extended lip/mouth on left transformed into 广. This transformation occurred during seal characters. Contrast the very different development of 馬 (“horse”), and the transformation in 𢊁 (as in 薦), which has the head of 鹿 but the legs of 馬 (灬)." }, { "no": 199, "radical": ["麥"], "strokeCount": 11, "meaning": "wheat", "pinyin": "mài", "hanViet": "mạch", "frequency": 131, "simplified": "麦", "examples": ["麨", "麩", "麪"], "order": "%E9%BA%A5-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BA%A5-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BA%A5-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BA%A5-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BA%A5-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mrɯːɡ): phonetic 來 (OC *m·rɯːɡ) + semantic 夊 (“foot; to walk slowly”). 來 was the original character for “wheat”. Several possible interpretations:" }, { "no": 200, "radical": ["麻"], "strokeCount": 11, "meaning": "hemp", "pinyin": "má", "hanViet": "ma", "frequency": 34, "examples": ["麼", "麾", "黁"], "order": "%E9%BA%BB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BA%BB-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BA%BB-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BA%BB-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 厂 + 𣏟: a representation of hemp leaves." }, { "no": 201, "radical": ["黃"], "strokeCount": 12, "meaning": "yellow", "pinyin": "huáng", "hanViet": "hoàng", "frequency": 42, "simplified": "黄", "examples": ["黈", "䵍", "黌"], "order": "%E9%BB%83-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BB%83-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%83-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%83-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%83-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "According to Shuowen, it is both a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷaːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意): phonetic 炗 (“light”) + semantic 田 (“field”) – the color of earth, with 炗 being the ancient form of 光 (OC *kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs, “light”). However, this interpretation is likely erroneous as 廿 at the top was formed as a result of corruption of 口 in the bronze inscription. Chi (2010) proposes that 黃 was originally a pictogram (象形) and the original character of 尪 (OC *qʷaːŋ, “a disabled person with a protruding chest or abdomen”). It has been phonetically borrowed for \"yellow\" since the era of the oracle bone script. He (1998) noted the possible ritual of burning disabled people with a protruding chest or abdomen to pray for rain as mentioned in Zuozhuan. The 口 in the upper part of the bronze inscription of 黃 might be depicting the disabled person's face facing upwards. Li (2012), on the other hand, proposes that 黃 was originally a pictogram (象形) and the original character of 璜 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “semicircular jade”) as the 口 in the oracle bone script resembles a ring of jade, so the character would carry the meaning of \"a man wearing a ring of jade on his chest\". The meaning \"yellow\" is the result of rebus." }, { "no": 202, "radical": ["黍"], "strokeCount": 12, "meaning": "millet", "pinyin": "shǔ", "hanViet": "thử", "frequency": 46, "examples": ["黎", "黏", "黐"], "order": "%E9%BB%8D-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BB%8D-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%8D-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%8D-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%8D-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 203, "radical": ["黑"], "strokeCount": 12, "meaning": "black", "pinyin": "hēi", "hanViet": "hắc", "frequency": 172, "examples": ["墨", "黓", "黔"], "order": "%E9%BB%91-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BB%91-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%91-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%91-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%92-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%91-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%91-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%92-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a person (大) with a tattooed face, depicting penal tattooing (墨), one of the five punishments of ancient China. In the bronze inscriptions from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, dots were sometimes added around 大, leading Shuowen to erroneously interpret the character as an ideogrammic compound (會意): 𡆧 (“chimney”) + 炎 (“fire; flame”) — fire burning under a chimney, causing it to become black from the smoke." }, { "no": 204, "radical": ["黹"], "strokeCount": 12, "meaning": "embroidery", "pinyin": "zhǐ", "hanViet": "chỉ", "frequency": 8, "examples": ["黺", "黻", "黼"], "order": "%E9%BB%B9-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BB%B9-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%B9-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%B9-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BB%B9-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 205, "radical": ["黽"], "strokeCount": 13, "meaning": "frog", "pinyin": "mǐn", "hanViet": "mãnh", "frequency": 40, "simplified": "黾", "examples": ["黿", "鼀", "鼁"], "order": "%E9%BB%BD-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%BB%BD-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 206, "radical": ["鼎"], "strokeCount": 13, "meaning": "tripod", "pinyin": "dǐng", "hanViet": "đỉnh", "frequency": 14, "examples": ["鼏", "鼐", "鼒"], "order": "%E9%BC%8E-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BC%8E-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BC%8E-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BC%8E-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BC%8E-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形)." }, { "no": 207, "radical": ["鼓"], "strokeCount": 13, "meaning": "drum", "pinyin": "gǔ", "hanViet": "cổ", "frequency": 46, "examples": ["鼕", "鼖", "鼗"], "order": "%E9%BC%93-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BC%93-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BC%93-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BC%93-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BC%93-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "" }, { "no": 208, "radical": ["鼠"], "strokeCount": 13, "meaning": "rat", "pinyin": "shǔ", "hanViet": "thử", "frequency": 92, "examples": ["鼢", "鼥", "鼩"], "order": "%E9%BC%A0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BC%A0-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BC%A0-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BC%A0-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a mouse or rat. In the seal script form, which is inherited in the regular script, the upper component resembling 臼 represents the open mouth of a rat with teeth displayed, and the lower component represents the two feet of a rat on the left and a tail on the right." }, { "no": 209, "radical": ["鼻"], "strokeCount": 14, "meaning": "nose", "pinyin": "bí", "hanViet": "tị", "frequency": 49, "examples": ["鼽", "鼾", "齁"], "order": "%E9%BC%BB-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%BC%BB-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *blids): semantic 自 (“nose”) + phonetic 畀 (OC *pids). 自 (OC *ɦljids) originally meant 'nose', but replaced by 鼻 (OC *blids) to represent the sense of “self”. Some scholars interpret 鼻 (OC *blids) as a combination of a nose (自 (OC *ɦljids)) and two lungs (畀 (OC *pids))." }, { "no": 210, "radical": ["齊", "斉"], "strokeCount": 14, "meaning": "even", "pinyin": "qí", "hanViet": "tề", "frequency": 18, "simplified": "齐", "examples": ["齋", "齌", "齍"], "order": "%E9%BD%8A-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": ["60px-%E9%BD%8A-seal.svg.png"], "note": "Ideogram (指事): a field of grain, hence of uniform height." }, { "no": 211, "radical": ["齒"], "strokeCount": 15, "meaning": "tooth", "pinyin": "chǐ", "hanViet": "xỉ/sỉ", "frequency": 162, "simplified": "齿", "examples": ["齔", "齕", "齖"], "order": "%E9%BD%92-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BD%92-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BD%92-bronze.svg.png", "60px-Shuowen_Seal_Radical_038.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BD%92-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a mouth full of teeth. 之 (zhī) or 止 (zhǐ) was later added on top as a phonetic component." }, { "no": 212, "radical": ["龍"], "strokeCount": 16, "meaning": "dragon", "pinyin": "lóng", "hanViet": "long", "frequency": 14, "simplified": "龙", "examples": ["龏", "龑", "龔"], "order": "%E9%BE%8D-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BE%8D-bronze-shang.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%8D-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%8D-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%8D-bronze-spring.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%8D-silk.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%8D-slip.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%8D-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%8D-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – originally a serpent with prominent whiskered mouth and eyes. Current form developed in large seal script, with serpent’s body on right (tail at upper right, legs on right), whiskered/fanged mouth at lower left, and eyes/crown at upper left. Left side was subsequently simplified and abstracted, with some influence of 立 and ⺼/月. Note that 竜 existed as a traditional variant dating back to large seal script, and figures a dragon seen face-on, rather than curled around." }, { "no": 213, "radical": ["龜"], "strokeCount": 16, "meaning": "turtle", "pinyin": "guī", "hanViet": "quy", "frequency": 24, "simplified": "龟", "examples": ["䶰", "龝", "龞"], "order": "%E9%BE%9C-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BE%9C-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%9C-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%9C-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%9C-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形): A drawing of a turtle seen from the side and from above (Bronze inscriptions)." }, { "no": 214, "radical": ["龠"], "strokeCount": 17, "meaning": "flute", "pinyin": "yuè", "hanViet": "dược", "frequency": 19, "examples": ["龡", "龢", "龤"], "order": "%E9%BE%A0-order.gif", "glyphOrigin": [ "60px-%E9%BE%A0-oracle.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%A0-bronze.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%A0-seal.svg.png", "60px-%E9%BE%A0-bigseal.svg.png" ], "note": "Pictogram (象形) – a woodwind instrument. In the bronze inscriptions, 亼 (a flipped 口) was added to show a mouth playing the instrument. Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意): 品 + 侖." } ]