丶

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Radical 3 丶

丶 (Kangxi radical 3, 丶+0, 1 stroke, cangjie input 戈 (I) or 難戈 (XI), four-corner 3000₀)

1. Kangxi radical #3, ⼂.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/丶

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 80, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 91
• Dae Jaweon: page 162, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 42, character 8
• Unihan data for U+4E36

Historical forms of the character 丶
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script
Transcribed ancient scripts L14405 L14406 L14407 L14408 L14409 L14410 L14411 L14413 L14414
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

A small fire on a torch, when used as the original form of 主 (which is unrelated with the right part of 往 < 𢓸); otherwise, it was just a point.

However, in most of the Chinese characters, it can represent many different things: ice (冰), water (汉), minerals (金, 丹), an eye (鸟), grains of sand (小), grains of salt (鹵), kernel of millet used to produce sacrifical wine (鬯), fire (火, 然), a tattoo on face as a form of punishment (黑), air coming out of a speaking mouth (兑), a line over a bifurcated tongue to underline the concept of "speaking" (言) or a line over a chisel to mark prisoners (辛), grass (草), the upper part of a door (户), the horns of a sheep (羊) or a lamb (羔), one horn of a cow or bull (牛, 告), a decoration on top of a flagpole (旅), a footprint pointing upwards (往, 之), the head of a man with a tattoo on his chest (文), the head of a man standing (立), the point of a roof (字, 京, 高), wine coming out of a vessel (酋)...

丶

1. An ancient punctuation mark.
2. Alternative form of 主

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. tick or dot radical No. 3 (てん, ten)
2. dot

• On (unclassified): ちゅう (chū)^{←ちう (tiu, historical)}
• Kun: てん (ten)

• 点

• Appears only as a radical.

丶 (eumhun 점 주 (jeom ju))

1. comma

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

丶: Hán Nôm readings: chủ

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