丶 Radical 3 — a dot; the mark where the brush comes to rest
zhǔ (third tone, dipping)
a dot; the mark where the brush comes to rest
Radical 31 stroke0 characters
Where the shape comes from
A single dot. The Shuowen explains it twice over — as the flame sitting on a lamp wick, and as the mark a reader puts where a sentence stops. Nobody writes it alone; it heads the small group of characters that begin with a dot: 主, 丸, 义, 为.
characters filed under 丶
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