Radical 129

聿
Radical 129 (U+2F80)
聿 (U+807F) "brush"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:yù
Bopomofo:ㄩˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:yuh
Wade–Giles:yü4
Cantonese Yale:waht
Jyutping:wat6
Japanese Kana:イツ itsu / イチ ichi (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:율 yul
Names
Japanese name(s):筆旁/ふでづくり fudezukuri
Hangul:붓 but
Stroke order animation

Radical 129 or radical brush (聿部) meaning "brush" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 19 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

聿 is also the 145th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 肀 and ⺻ being its associated indexing components.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 聿 肀
+4 肁 肂 肃SC (=肅)
+5 粛JP (=肅)
+7 肄 肅 肆
+8 肇 肈 (=肇)

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.