Radical 114

禸
Radical 114 (U+2F71)
禸 (U+79B8) "track"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:róu
Bopomofo:ㄖㄡˊ
Wade–Giles:jou2
Cantonese Yale:yau2
Jyutping:jau2
Japanese Kana:ジュウ jū (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:유 yu
Names
Japanese name(s):寓の脚/ぐうのあし gūnoashi
Hangul:자귀 jagwi
Stroke order animation

Radical 114 or radical track (禸部) meaning "rump" or "track" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 12 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

禸 is not listed in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components, hence not used as a Simplified Chinese radical (indexing component).

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 禸
+4 禹 禺
+6 离 (also SC form of 離 -> 隹)
+7 禼
+8 禽

Variant forms

The radical character as an independent Chinese character takes different forms in different languages.

Trad. Chinese (Taiwan) Simp. Chinese Japanese Korean
禸 禸 禸 禸

When used as a component, its form depends on not only languages but also characters.

Trad. Chinese (Taiwan) Simp. Chinese Japanese Korean
禺 离 禺 离 禺 离 禺 离

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.