Radical 206

鼎
Radical 206 (U+2FCD)
鼎 (U+9F0E) "sacrificial tripod, cauldron"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	dǐng
Bopomofo:	ㄉㄧㄥˇ
Wade–Giles:	ting3
Cantonese Yale:	ding2
Jyutping:	ding2
Japanese Kana:	テイ tei かなえ kanae
Sino-Korean:	정 jeong
Hán-Việt:	đỉnh
Names
Japanese name(s):	鼎 kanae
Hangul:	솥 sot
Stroke order animation

Radical 206 meaning "sacrificial tripod" or "three-legged cauldron" (鼎部) is 1 of 4 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 13 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 14 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Evolution

鼎

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
• 
  Western Zhou Bronze script
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

具

鼎 ("cauldron") + 廾 ("two hands")

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
• 
  Western Zhou Bronze script
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

真

Phono-semantic compound: semantic 鼎/貝 + phonetic 𠂈 (*tˤiŋ).

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Characters with Radical 206

seal script character

strokes	character
+0	鼎
+2	鼏 鼑 鼐
+3	鼒

Main article: wikt:Wiktionary:Chinese radical index 鼎

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). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+9F0E