Radical 24

十
← 23 Radical 24 (U+2F17) 25 →
十 (U+5341) "ten"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shí
Bopomofo:	ㄕˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	shyr
Wade–Giles:	shih2
Cantonese Yale:	sahp
Jyutping:	sap6
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	cha̍p (col.) si̍p (lit.)
Japanese Kana:	ジュウ jū (on'yomi) と to / とお tō (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	십 sip
Hán-Việt:	thập
Names
Japanese name(s):	十偏 jūhen
Hangul:	열 yeol
Stroke order animation

Radical 24 or radical ten (十部) meaning ten, complete, or perfect, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 55 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.

十 is also the 6th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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  Shang dynasty oracle bone script
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  Shang dynasty bronze script
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  Western Zhou bronze script
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  Spring and Autumn period bronze script
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  Warring States period bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Qin slip script
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  Large seal script
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  Small seal script

十 is two crossed lines. It was originally a vertical line, a pictogram of a needle (now 針/针), later supplemented by a dot in the center of the stroke which became a short cross-stroke and expanded to the current shape.

Derived characters

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.
• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
• KangXi: page 155, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
• Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9

See also

• Cross

External links

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