Radical 59

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}} {{Infobox Kangxi radical |59|uni=5F61 |meaning=bristle, beard |pny= shān |bopo= ㄕㄢ |gr= shan |wade= shan¹ |jyutping= saam1 |yale= sāam |poj= sam |cn= 三撇 sānpiě |onyomi= サン san |jp= 彡旁/さんづくり sanzukuri<br />髪飾り/かみかざり kamikazari |hang= 터럭 teoreok |hanja= 삼 sam }}

'''Radical 59''' or '''radical bristle''' ({{Lang|zh-Hant|彡部}}) meaning '''"bristle"''' or '''"beard"''' is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.

In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 62 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|彡}} is also the 42nd indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. It is extremely similar to the katakana Mi, the only difference is being flipped 180 degrees.

==Evolution== <gallery> File:彡-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:彡-seal.svg|Small seal script character </gallery>

==Derived characters== {| class="wikitable" ! Strokes !! Characters |---- | +0 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|彡}} |---- | +4 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|形}} {{Linktext|彣}} {{Linktext|彤}} |---- | +6 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|彥}} {{Linktext|彦}}^SC/JP (=彥) {{Linktext|须}}^SC (={{Linktext|須}} <small>-> 頁</small> / {{Linktext|鬚}} <small>-> 髟</small>) |---- | +7 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|彧}} {{Linktext|彨}} (=彲) |---- | +8 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|彩}} {{Linktext|彪}} {{Linktext|彫}}^JP/variant (={{Linktext|雕}} <small>-> 隹</small>) {{Linktext|彬}} |---- | +9 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|彭}} |---- | +10 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|彮}} |---- | +11 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|彯}} {{Linktext|彰}} |---- | +12 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|影}} |---- | +19 || style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|彲}} |}

== Literature == *{{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }} *{{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}

==External links== {{Commons category|Radical 059}} *[https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5F61 Unihan Database - U+5F61]

{{Kangxi Radicals}} {{Simplified Chinese radicals}}

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