Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4825 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin
| Message 1 of 5 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:
䶳
龡
龢
䶴
龣
龤
龥
䶵
Edited by Homogenik on 11 September 2013 at 3:46am
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vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4679 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 2 of 5 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 Diglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5451 days ago 122 posts - 139 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, English Studies: French
| Message 3 of 5 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:
䶳
龡
龢
䶴
龣
龤
龥
䶵 |
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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 Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 4 of 5 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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MTSranger Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 3991 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin* Studies: Japanese
| Message 5 of 5 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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