Radical 3 or radical dot () meaning "to indicate an end"Shuowen Jiezi: "Where there is an end, 丶 is used to mark it." This refers to the practice of using 丶 as a judou punctuation mark. is one of six of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of only one stroke.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are only 10 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
is also the 3rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Derived characters Strokes Characters +0 (zhǔ "dot") +1 KO (Korean kwukyel note) +2 SC/JP/TC (wán "pellet") +3 (dān "vermillion"), SC (= -> 爪 / -> 火 wéi "to do, to be; for") +4 (zhǔ "owner, master; main") (dǎn onomatopoeia / = -> 二 jǐng "water well") +7 SC (= -> 鹿 lì "pretty, lovely") +8 SC (= -> 臼 jǔ "raise, recommend") In calligraphy
The only stroke in Radical 3, known as diǎn "dot", is called cè in the eight principles of the character 永 ( Yǒngzì Bāfǎ) which are the basis of Chinese calligraphy.
References
Literature
External links
Unihan Database - U+4E36