Radical 118

Radical 118 or radical bamboo (竹部) meaning "bamboo" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes. The radical character usually appears at the top of characters and transforms into 𥫗.

Radical 118 (U+2F75)
(U+7AF9) "bamboo"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:zhú
Bopomofo:ㄓㄨˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:jwu
Wade–Giles:chu2
Cantonese Yale:juk1
Jyutping:zuk1
Japanese Kana:チク chiku (on'yomi)
たけ take (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:죽 juk
Names
Chinese name(s):竹字頭/竹字头 zhúzìtóu
Japanese name(s):竹/たけ take
竹冠/たけかんむり takekanmuri
Hangul:대 dae
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 953 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 135th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 𥫗 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0 𥫗Component
+2
+3 (=篪) 竿 SC (=篤)
+4 (=籍) SC (=筍) SC (=筆) SC (=筧)
+5 (= -> ) (= -> ) (= / -> 冂策) (=範) SC (=箋) SC (=籠) SC (=籩)
+6 笿 (=篪) (=築) SC (=篳) SC (=篩) SC (=簹) SC (=箏)
+7 (=策) (=筒) (=箸) SC (=籌) SC (=篔) SC (=簽/籤) 筿 (=篠) SC (=簡)
+8 (=篦) (= -> ) (=篪) (= -> ) SC (=籙) (= -> 刀) (= -> ) SC (=簀) SC (=篋) SC (=籜) SC (=籮) SC (=簞) SC (=簫)
+9 (= -> ) (=簫) 箿 SC (=簣) SC (=簍)
+10 (=箬) JP (=籠) SC (=籃) SC (=籛) (= -> )
+11 SC (=籬) (=笛) (= -> / -> / -> ) 篿 (=筘) (=箳) (=篡) SC (=籪)
+12 (=簫) (=簁) (=簪)
+13 (= -> ) 簿 SC (=籟)
+14
+15 (= -> / -> )
+16 (=籐) (=籯)
+17 (= -> )
+18
+19 (=簁)
+20
+24
+26

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 竹 is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It means bamboo or the middle of a 3-tier ranking system

References

  1. "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Further reading

  • 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.
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