radykał

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Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin rādīcālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raˈdɘ.kaw/
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  • Rhymes: -ɘkaw
  • Syllabification: ra‧dy‧kał

Noun

radykał m pers (female equivalent radykałka)

  1. extremist, radical, ultra
    Synonyms: ekstremista, fanatyk, radykalista, ultras

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Noun

radykał m inan

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) radical (a group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit)
    Synonym: rodnik
  2. (arithmetic, obsolete) root (of a number or quantity)
    Synonym: pierwiastek
  3. (linguistics) radical (the portion of a character that provides an indication of its meaning in logographic writing systems)
    Synonyms: pierwiastek, klucz
    • 2013 October 19, Amaya Beata, “Uczymy się kanji - 前 i 後”, in 日本語を勉強します:
      Przechodzimy do drugiego kanji z dzisiejszej notki. 後 Mamy tutaj radykał na idącego człowieka:彳a za nim Z TYŁU podąża sobie kolejny człowieczek
      Let's move on to the second kanji in today's note. 後 Here we have a radical of a man walking:彳and there's another little man following him from BEHIND
    • 2018 July 22, Keitah, “Skuteczna nauka kanji – jak uczę się kanji?”, in Keitah, archived from the original on 21 February 2022:
      Co więcej – jeśli wiesz, jak pisać radykały (czyli tzw. małe cząstki każdego znaku kanji) to tym bardziej masz już pojęcie o tym, jak pisać.
      What's more - if you know how to write radicals (i.e. the so-called small parts of each kanji character), the greater your idea of how to write already is.
    • 2019 February 15, “Nauka japońskiego: czym są radykały?”, in Greelane:
      W pisanym języku japońskim radykał (bushu) jest wspólnym elementem podrzędnym występującym w różnych znakach kanji .
      In written Japanese, radicals (bushu) are a common subordinate element found in various kanji characters .

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Further reading

  • radykał in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • radykał in Polish dictionaries at PWN