Stroke order of the simplified form
Stroke order of the simplified left component form

Radical 159 or radical cart (車部) meaning "cart" or "car" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 361 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.[1]

, the simplified form of , is the 68th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form is listed as its associated indexing components. is derived from the cursive form of .

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters (車) Characters (车)
+0 SC (=車)
+1 SC (=軋)
+2 SC (=軌)
+3 (=轊) SC (=軒) SC (=軑) SC (=軔)
+4 JP (=轉) JP nonstandard (=轟) SC (=轉) SC (=軛) SC (=輪) SC (=軟) SC (=轟)
+5 (=軛) JP (=輕; also variant form of 輊) SC (=軲) SC (=軻) SC (=轤) SC (=軸) SC (=軹) SC (=軼) SC (=軤) SC (=軫) SC (=轢) SC (=軺) SC (=輕)
+6 軿 JP (=輛) SC (=軾) SC (=載) SC (=輊) 轿SC (=轎) SC (=輈) SC (=輇) SC (=輅) SC (=較)
+7 SC (=輒) SC (=輔) SC (=輛)
+8 (=輒) SC (=輦) SC (=輩) SC (=輝) SC (=輥) SC (=輞) SC (=輬) SC (=輟) SC (=輜)
+9 (=軟) (=輜) HK/GB TC (=轀) SC (=輳) SC (=輻) SC (=輯) SC (=轀) SC (=輸) SC (=轡)
+10 (=軬) 輿 SC (=轅) SC (=轄) SC (=輾)
+11 SC (=轆)
+12 SC (=轍) SC (=轔)
+13
+14
+15
+16
+20

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[2] It is a first grade kanji[2]


References

  1. ^ "Unihan data for U+8ECA". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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.