Radical 201


Radical 201 or radical yellow meaning "yellow" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals composed of 12 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 42 characters to be found under this radical.
The xin zixing form of this radical, 黄, is the 192nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
黄 is also the Japanese simplified form of this radical character.

Evolution

Derived characters

Variant forms

This radical has different forms in different languages or characters.
Kangxi Dict.
Japanese hyōgai
Korean
Trad. Chinese 		Trad. Chinese Simp. Chinese
Japanese jōyō
黃黃黄

While Hong Kong and Taiwan have selected different forms as their standards, the two traditional forms are often interchangeable.
In Japanese, the simplified form 黄 is used in jōyō kanji, while the traditional form 黃 is used in hyōgai kanji.

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