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生 (U+751F) "life" | ||
Pronunciations | ||
Pinyin: | shēng | |
Bopomofo: | ㄕㄥ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | sheng | |
Wade–Giles: | shêng1 | |
Cantonese Yale: | sāang | |
Jyutping: | saang1 | |
Japanese Kana: | セイ sei / ショウ shō (on'yomi) い-きる i-kiru / う-まれる u-mareru (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 생 saeng | |
Names | ||
Japanese name(s): | いきる ikiru うまれる umareru せい sei しょう shō | |
Hangul: | 날 nal | |
Stroke order animation | ||
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Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.[1]
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
生 is also the 109th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.