Radical 161

辰
Radical 161 (U+2FA0)
辰 (U+8FB0) "morning"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	chén
Bopomofo:	ㄔㄣˊ
Wade–Giles:	ch'en2
Cantonese Yale:	san4
Jyutping:	san4
Japanese Kana:	シン shin (on'yomi) たつ tatsu (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	신 sin
Hán-Việt:	thần
Names
Japanese name(s):	しんのたつ shinnotatsu
Hangul:	별 byeol
Stroke order animation

Radical 161 or radical morning (辰部) meaning "morning" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 15 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In Chinese astrology, 辰 represents the fifth Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac.

辰 is also the 154th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	辰
+3	辱
+6	農
+8	辳 (=農)
+12	辴

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/辰

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+8FB0