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←  105 Radical 106 ( U+2F69) 107 →
(U+767D) "white"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:bái
Bopomofo:ㄅㄞˊ
Wade–Giles:pai2
Cantonese Yale:baak6
Jyutping:baak6
Japanese Kana:ハク haku ( on'yomi)
しろ shiro / しら shira / しろ-い shiro-i ( kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:백 baek
Hán-Việt:bạch
Names
Chinese name(s):白字旁 báizìpáng
Japanese name(s):白/しろ shiro
(Left) 白偏/しろへん shirohen
Hangul:흰 huin
Stroke order animation

Radical 106 or radical white (白部) meaning " white" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 109 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 112th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+1
+2 (=皂) (= -> / -> -> )
+3
+4
+5 (= -> )
+6 (=皋) SC (=皚)
+7
+8
+10 (=皓 / -> )
+11 (=皞)
+12 (=皞)
+13
+14
+15
+16
+18

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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