| 生 | |
|---|---|
Radical 100 (U+2F63)
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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 | |
Radical 100 or radical life (生部) meaning "life" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.
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.
屮 (“bud”) + 一 (“ground”); unrelated to 主
| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 生 |
| +4 | 甠 |
| +5 | 甡 |
| +6 | 產 産 |
| +7 | 甤 甥 甦 |
| +9 | 甧 |
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. It is a first grade kanji.
The character alone is present in the phrase worship of the living.