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chinese Rare radical 龠 and its characters

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Homogenik
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11 September 2013 at 3:44am | IP Logged 
I was wondering if the radical 龠 is still used in chinese as a standalone character and if the characters based on it
are as well. I noticed the following characters written with 龠:









Edited by Homogenik on 11 September 2013 at 3:46am

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vermillon
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11 September 2013 at 4:08pm | IP Logged 
All of these fall into two categories:
-they refer to some item or unit of measure that belongs to the distant past (so the word itself is not used except if you're referring to that distant past)
-they're a deprecated variant of another character.

So, this radical is not really useful any more, no.
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chenshujian
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20 September 2013 at 12:42pm | IP Logged 
Homogenik wrote:
I was wondering if the radical 龠 is still used in chinese as a standalone character and if the characters based on it
are as well. I noticed the following characters written with 龠:









I am a native Chinese speaker from Mainland China. I never see characters like these. Neither do I know its meaning.

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Ari
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11 October 2013 at 7:15am | IP Logged 
As a radical it's not very useful for modern Mandarin, no. As a component, it's used mainly (as far as I know) in the character 鑰, which is a very common character.
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22 December 2013 at 9:07pm | IP Logged 
As a component (but not radical) of 籲, you also see it in the word 呼籲, somewhat common.


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