Radical 100

← 99 Radical 100 (U+2F63) 101 →
(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.[1]

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 109th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

  1. ^ "Unihan data for Unihan data for U+751F". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 30 March 2011.