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Radical 121 or radical jar (缶部) meaning "jar" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 77 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
缶 is also the 133rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
In Japanese, 缶 is the shinjitai form of 罐, but the two characters are historically irrelevant.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character
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Large seal script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
Strokes | Characters |
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+0 | 缶 |
+2 | 缷 (=卸 -> 卩) |
+3 | 缸 |
+4 | 缹 缺 缼 (=缺) |
+5 | 缻 (=缶) 缽 |
+6 | 缾 (=瓶 -> 瓦) 缿 罀 |
+8 | 罁 罂SC (=罌) |
+10 | 罃 |
+11 | 罄 罅 罆 |
+12 | 罇 (=樽 -> 木) 罈 罉 |
+13 | 罊 罋 (=甕 -> 瓦) |
+14 | 罌 |
+15 | 罍 |
+16 | 罎 (=罈) 罏 |
+18 | 罐 |
Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
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