Radical 174

Radical 174 meaning "blue" or "green" (see Distinguishing blue from green in Chinese) is 1 of 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 8 strokes. It is also the character representing the color ao in Japanese, a general term covering both blue and green.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 174

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York, 1987: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0896597741. 
• Lunde, Ken (Jan. 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596514471. http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf. 

External links

• Unihan Database - U+9751