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Radical 79

Radical 79 or radical weapon (殳部) meaning "weapon" or "lance" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals composed of 4 strokes.

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Radical 79 (U+2F4E)
(U+6BB3) "weapon, lance"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:shū
Bopomofo:ㄕㄨ
Wade–Giles:shu1
Cantonese Yale:syùh
Jyutping:syu4
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:
Japanese Kana:シュ shu (on'yomi)
ほこ hoko (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:수 su
Names
Japanese name(s):殳/ほこ hoko
殳旁/ほこづくり hokozukuri
ル又/るまた rumata
Hangul:칠 chil
Stroke order animation

Radical 79 or radical weapon (殳部) meaning "weapon" or "lance" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 93 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 92nd 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
+3

+5 SC/JP (=毆)
+6
+7 JP/GB TC/variant (=殼)
+8
+9 殿 SC (=毀) SC (= -> )
+10
+11
+12
+15
+19

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