Radical 153

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Radical 153 or radical badger (豸部) meaning "badger" or "legless insect" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

← 152 Radical 153 (U+2F98) 154 →
(U+8C78) "badger, legless insect"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:zhì
Bopomofo:ㄓˋ
Wade–Giles:chih4
Cantonese Yale:jaai6, ji6
Jyutping:zaai6, zi6
Japanese Kana:チ chi / タイ tai (on'yomi)
とける tokeru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:치 chi
Names
Japanese name(s):貉偏/むじなへん mujinahen
Hangul:발 없는 벌레
bal eomneun beolle
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 140 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 162nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+3
+4
+5 豿
+6
+7 (=豻)
+8
+9
+10
+11
+12
+18 (= -> )
+20

Literature

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  • 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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