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

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

StrokesCharacters
+0
+1卂 千 卄
+2卅 卆JP nonstandard (=卒) 升 午
+3卉 半
+4卋 (=世 -> ) 卌 卍 华SC (=華 -> ) 协SC (=協) 卐 毕SC (=畢 -> )
+6丧SC (=喪 -> ) 卑 卒 卓 協 单SC (=單 -> ) 卖SC (=賣 -> )
+7
+8
+9
+10
+19卛 颦SC (=顰 -> )

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: , character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2695
  • Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 58, character 9

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