Radical 179

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Radical 179 (U+2FB2)
(U+97ED) "leek"
Pinyin: jiǔ
Bopomofo: ㄐㄧㄡ
Wade–Giles: chiu3
Jyutping: gau2
Cantonese Yale: gau2
Hiragana: キュウ, にら kyū, nira
Kanji: 韭 nira
Hangul: 부추 buchu
Sino-Korean: 구 gu

Radical 179 meaning "leek" is 1 of 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 9 strokes.[1]

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 179

strokes character
without additional strokes
6 additional strokes
7 additional strokes
8 additional strokes
10 additional strokes

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". CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second Edition ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

References

  1. "Unihan data for U+97ED". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 1 April 2011. 
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