Radical 203 or radical black (黑部) meaning "black" is one of the 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 12 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 172 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

黑 is also the 196th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

This radical character is simplified as 黒 in Japanese jōyō kanji.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0黑 黒JP (=黑)
+3墨SC/TC/KO/墨JP 黓
+4黔 黕 黖 黗 默
+5黚 黛 黜 黝 點
+6黟 黠 黡SC (=黶)
+7黢 黣
+8黤 黥 黦 黧 黨 黩SC (=黷) 黪SC (=黲)
+9黫 黬 黭 黮 黯
+10黰 黱
+11黲 黳 黴
+13
+14
+15
+16

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.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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